The Paradoxical Prime Minister

Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor has stirred up a controversy with a new analogy on Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- one that he attributed to an "RSS source" of a journalist.

"I'm sorry if one of my tweets y'day gave rise to an epidemic of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!" wrote Shashi Tharoor, going on to explain that the word meant a fear of long words.

Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor's latest wordplay is longer than 'lalochezia' and may not be as catchy as 'webaqoof', but it's a 29-letter tongue-twister compressed into a single word. Mr Tharoor 'unveiled' the word floccinaucinihilipilification to the public in a tweet that also introduced his new book The Paradoxical Prime Minister, on wh...

The poet-politician, the man who made India a declared nuclear state and almost went to war with Pakistan before making a dramatic gesture for peace, the Nehru of the Right - these are the many shades that make Atal Bihari Vajpayee an enduring paradox of Indian politics.

The poet-politician, the man who made India a declared nuclear state and almost went to war with Pakistan before making a dramatic gesture for peace, the Nehru of the Right - these are the many shades that make Atal Bihari Vajpayee an enduring paradox of Indian politics.

Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor has stirred up a controversy with a new analogy on Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- one that he attributed to an "RSS source" of a journalist.

"I'm sorry if one of my tweets y'day gave rise to an epidemic of hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia!" wrote Shashi Tharoor, going on to explain that the word meant a fear of long words.

Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor's latest wordplay is longer than 'lalochezia' and may not be as catchy as 'webaqoof', but it's a 29-letter tongue-twister compressed into a single word. Mr Tharoor 'unveiled' the word floccinaucinihilipilification to the public in a tweet that also introduced his new book The Paradoxical Prime Minister, on wh...

The poet-politician, the man who made India a declared nuclear state and almost went to war with Pakistan before making a dramatic gesture for peace, the Nehru of the Right - these are the many shades that make Atal Bihari Vajpayee an enduring paradox of Indian politics.

The poet-politician, the man who made India a declared nuclear state and almost went to war with Pakistan before making a dramatic gesture for peace, the Nehru of the Right - these are the many shades that make Atal Bihari Vajpayee an enduring paradox of Indian politics.