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Of borders and tongues: A writer’s lifelong journey of losing and finding his mother language

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Slaying the Snark: What Lewis Carroll’s nonsense verse tells us about reality

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‘Can we still let the cat out of the bag?’: PETA’s anti-animal phrases post gets social media’s goat

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· Dec 06, 2018 · 02:21 pm

How the popularity of veganism might change the language used in fiction

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· Nov 25, 2018 · 09:36 am

Is it time to retire the term ‘human-wildlife conflicts’ to describe encounters with animals?

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· Nov 02, 2018 · 01:30 pm

Unsolicited advice to writers: Why you should learn to love the full stop.

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· Oct 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

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· Sep 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

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· Aug 20, 2018 · 05:00 pm

Ten writers talk of words they detest and prefer not to use (and of words they love)

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· Jun 19, 2018 · 12:24 pm

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· Jun 18, 2018 · 08:00 pm

Bangla pride vs ‘Hindi-Hindu-Hindustani’: In West Bengal, a new Trinamool front to counter the BJP?

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· Jun 17, 2018 · 09:00 am

Podcast: The young Indian who found fame in Europe in 20th century for speaking Esperanto

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· May 20, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Can saving a language help a community that’s under threat in a globalised world?

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· Apr 25, 2018 · 11:30 pm

In the India of today, would we still celebrate inter-community marriages like they did in 1996?

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· Apr 15, 2018 · 06:30 pm

How I invented a new language for the TV version of China Miéville’s novel ‘The City and The City’

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· Apr 08, 2018 · 05:30 pm

What literature and language tell us about the history of loneliness

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