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Book review: A Wonderland of Words by Shashi Tharoor

The tagline reads: Around the world in 101 essays. These essays are an `expanded and augmented` version of Shashi Tharoor`s  `World of Words` column in the Khaleej Times wherein he parses the meaning of many an English  word, a term, a concept, indeed of a fast evolving language itself. Stray thought: this is just the…

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Book review: Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor

I’d been wanting to read this collection of essays about books and not much else,  Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor, for a while now. Picked it up for a song at the one and only Blossoms store (in Bangalore) the other day, and I’m glad I did. Tharoor in my opinion, makes a better essayist than…

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