Shashi Tharoor turns 67: A look at India’s most eminent logophile and his Twitter world
The author, diplomat, and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has always excited the Twitter world by tweeting rarely-used words from the English vocabulary.
Shashi Tharoor is one of the most liked orators, not just in India but also abroad. He engages the Twitter world every now and then by educating people with exotic words and their meanings.
People have always been in awe of his extensive vocabulary and command over the English language. No matter his political stance, social media users are always intrigued by his expressions, wit, and fluency while he speaks.
When asked in an interview about how he acquired this vocabulary, he said it was just through the habit of reading books. He added that he has barely opened a dictionary in all his life, as people tend to assume that he reads dictionaries all day long.
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Here are the most talked about tweets by Tharoor
Starting with the one that became national news and invited a lot of comical memes all over the internet:
In 2022, he shared his word of the era, ‘doom-scrolling’ and created a buzz on social media:
The time when he agreed to author Chetan Bhagat’s request of using bigger words to praise him:
Some unique English words by Shashi Tharoor
Floccinaucinihilipilification
The word means the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.
Ostentation
Ostentation’ means to be a pretentious or showy display of wealth and luxury, designed to impress.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia
The head-scratcher was thrown by Shashi Tharoor in 2018. It’s just a word describing a fear of long words, said Tharoor while explaining the meaning of the word.
Born in the United Kingdom, Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Shashi Tharoor was the most followed Indian on Twitter before being overtaken by Narendra Modi.
He is also a Sahitya Academy Awardee and has published many works of fiction and non-fiction since 1981, based on the themes of India and its history, culture, film, politics, society, and foreign policy.
He has also published many columns, stories and articles in many major publications in India and the world.
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