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    Dr.Sashi Tharoor is a world-level statesman hailing from Trivandrum, Kerala who was born in London to Indian parents and had excellent education in catholic schools and colleges that are top-class in India in places like Bombay (now Mumbai) and Calcutta (now Kolkata). This rich background, exposure and familial encouragement to instill in him a deep-seated propensity to read since he was very young is what has earned him honour and respect not just among fellow statesmen in India who are his peers but also on the world stage by people in the United Nations. His use of vocabulary seldom used in everyday conversations, is quite a learning experience for any commoner as they would find themselves scrambling for dictionaries or online lexica as they get verbally bombarded with rare treasures hardly found in any thesaurus (thesaurus incidentally is a Latin word meaning treasure), since his eclectic choice of words go beyond anything that we can find in everyday paperback dictio...

      AI has become a buzzword in our day and age as AI finds more and more applications in everyday life as everyone from software engineers to mechatronics experts scramble to implement various types of AI in technology and mechanical systems (as a marketing tool for their products) alike so much so that it is hard to find anything out there in the world without AI. While AI itself has been around at least as a term from the 1920's when it was purely a figment of science fiction in films made by a Karel Capek who was the first to use the term. Alan Tureng - The Father of Computer Science was considered the first person to talk about AI as a theoretical reality, John Macarthy known as the "Father of AI" later popularised AI, spoke of it extensively and contributed to its development from a practical standpoint, only recently has the term been making circles on social media, media and the Internet with an ever-increasing number of people talking about it extensively. On t...

    Language plays a crucial role in our daily lives, whichever language we speak in our day-to-day lives. Having said this, India is the 2nd most diverse country in the world when it comes to the number of languages spoken throughout the country after Papua New Guinea and there are broadly 4 major language families in India from a linguistic perspective - i) The Indo-European language family (particularly Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages like Sanskrit and its daughters like Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati etc) spoken in North and Central India. ii) The Dravidian language family (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu, Paduga, Kodaga etc) mostly spoken in the 5 Southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. iii) The Sino-Tibetian language family (Mizo, Assamese, Naga etc.) spoken in the North-Eastern part of India. iv) The Austronesian language family spoken by some tribal people interspersed throughout various states in ...

     Tamil is an ancient language and Tamil civilisation is on par with many ancient civilisations and according to some, more ancient than others. There are of course, those of us Tamilians who believe in the age-old adage "Tamil came after the stones and sand (Kal thondri man thondri)..", this, of course, would spark an outrage among those who hold different views and who would like to lay claim to their old language as the oldest. I actually happened to come across a thread in Facebook where a Greek was arguing that Greek was the oldest language in the world, in stark contrast to what some Sanskrit scholars in India would hold. The truth however is that Sanskrit, Greek and Latin all came from PIE (Proto Indo-European language) which is a reconstructed language of origin of all the languages in the Indo-European family of languages, as this is the most widely accepted theory among linguists, historians and archaeologists alike and with regard to the claim of Tamilians r...