40 years to the day that I had to walk home from work, a whole 20 kilometres, because the country was burning and the city had shut down. Harrowing for someone barely out of his teens and in a city he barely knew.
‘The book shows that Tharoor’s love of words in the English language extends far beyond his occasional sesquipedalian salvoes’
I review @ShashiTharoor ‘s latest, ‘A Wonderland of Words: Around the World in 101 Essays’, in today’s The Asian Age
As a first-time watcher of Young Sheldon, I was wondering why the kid was beginning to irritate me by the time I reached Season 3. And then I realised: when he pontificates, he speaks exactly like a certain American Presidential hopeful !