Key Highlights
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- Tharoor, who was in conversation with writer and scholar Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, also his niece, further added, “I should be vaguely ashamed of it…But I am not.
- Because I have learned most of my English in India.” English, he said, definitely has a place on Indian soil, “otherwise we wouldn’t have a crowd like this in an English language literary festival, right?” Mr.
- Tharoor then proceeded to regale the crowd with anecdotes, ideas, thoughts, and trivia about language in his session titled “A Wonderland of Words”, largely focused on his book, A Wonderland of Words: Around the Word in 101 Essays, published last year.
- In the discussion, Tharoor also argued that the English lexicon has become richer by borrowing Indian words like loot, thug, and shampoo.
