May 14, 2023LANGUAGELanguage Lessons from "The Kerala Story" and the Coronation of CharlesIf you have not heard of the movie The Kerala Story, you are not an Indian. It was released recently and has sharply polarized public...
Apr 29, 2023LANGUAGEThe Copyeditor as Word Detective: Using Lookalikes and Soundalikes to Crack Word PuzzlesDuring the course of their work, academic copyeditors often meet strange words. An online search with keywords drawn from the context of...
Apr 15, 2023BOOKSThe Colored Fountain: Racism in the United States, Casteism in India(October 11, 2023 update: A new Indian edition of the book has just been published by Aleph under the title Three Countries, Three Lives:...
May 24, 2022BOOKSTables That Eat Grass and Crows That Fly Upside DownIn the book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, I came across this sentence...