Feb 4. 2009, New Delhi: The list of Padma Shri recipients for the year 2009-10 was announced today, much earlier than expected possibly due to the Mumbai massacre of 26/11, at New Delhi a week after the “dispatching” the previous year’s awards . As many as <data type overflow> people from various spheres of the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
And The Padma Shri Goes To…
Posted in All Posts, Culture, tagged “Dindukkal” Leoni, Cyrus Broacha, Indian Awards, Mandira Bedi, national awards, Neeya-Naana Gopi, Padma Awards, Padma Shri, Raman organic petrol, Ramanarayanan, Sujith Somasunder on January 31, 2009 | 8 Comments »
New Vocabulary of the New Indian
Posted in All Posts, Culture, Petty Things, tagged dedication, Frenz, kadicate, language murder, missed call, mu-sick channel, rocking, rocks, verbal homicide, vocabulary on January 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Off late, I mean very late, I have observed a strange shift in vocabulary of the Indian people with respect to media, most notably in the Tamil populace. A lot of new words have crept up to unimaginable places and are at the brink of “extinction by overuse”. Careful perusal through the invariable marquees across [...]
