The gentlest weapon to slay the harshest adversary

A tribute to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi by me on the ZTTRR blog…

Zero Tolerance to Road Rage

Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhiji and Bapu are just a few names by which people today love to remember Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Besides successfully leading India’s freedom struggle against the British, Gandhi is known for presenting to the world a very powerful yet simple tool to fight injustices and conflicts through peace, truth, logic and steadfastness. This, he called, the principle of Satyagraha.

Satyagraha (pronounced, suht-yuh-gruh-huh), loosely translated as ‘insistence on truth’, is a policy of non-violent resistance or civil resistance. It is, however, different from passive resistance, as understood and practised in the West. In Gandhi’s own words, Satyagraha is different from passive resistance “in three essentials: Satyagraha is a weapon of the strong; it admits of no violence under any circumstance whatsoever; and it ever insists upon truth.”*

Satyagraha has proved to be the most potent weapon in the world. Peace attained…

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Road Word of the Day: pleonasm

Zero Tolerance to Road Rage

Here’s the road word for today:

If you are a word-lover, who wants to suggest us an alternative road usage sentence or even a new Road Word of the Day, you are welcome to speak your heart. We will try to incorporate your ideas in future posts. Also, you may send us constructive suggestions on our fight against road rage. Happy road-wording …

A quick exercise for you

The spellings and pronunciations given here are typically American. In India, especially in the academic circles, we use the British variants. Can you write down the British variants of the spellings (if any) and pronunciations in the form of comments to this blog?

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Road Word of the Day: femme fatale

Zero Tolerance to Road Rage

Here’s the road word for today:

If you are a word-lover, who wants to suggest us an alternative road usage sentence or even a new Road Word of the Day, you are welcome to speak your heart. We will try to incorporate your ideas in future posts. Also, you may send us constructive suggestions on our fight against road rage. Happy road-wording …

A quick exercise for you

The spellings and pronunciations given here are typically American. In India, especially in the academic circles, we use the British variants. Can you write down the British variants of the spellings (if any) and pronunciations in the form of comments to this blog?

How to subscribe?
You can subscribe to the Road Word of the Day service by any of the following ways:

• like our Facebook page
• follow us on Twitter
• join our Google Group
• follow this blog (click on the Follow button…

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A Road Word of the Day?

A collage of road words

The circulation of online goodies (I mean, services) such as Word of the Day or A Word a Day is as old as the Internet itself—actually, older! Times then and times now have always been rife with word lovers. Some like word service because of the spoon-feeding inherent in it—they get to learn a new word that adds up to their vocabulary everyday, without ever having to tire themselves while groping for that heavy dictionary! Others like it because they are keen to know the practicability and usage of words, besides being smitten by the novelty of words. There are still others—the adventurous lot—who like it because of the sheer surprise element involved in it—“Which word tomorrow?” “How many inflections?” “How difficult the pronunciation?” So on and so forth.

But my question is—have you ever had even an inkling of something as strange as a Road Word? A Road Word of the Day, at that? Hang on. It’s no rocket science! Post a Word of the Day. Prop it up with a creative sentence that illustrates its usage. Wait; there’s just one more step. The sentence is made in the context of roads, traffic or transport. Lo and behold! Your fresh-baked Road Word of the Day is ready to serve.

The whole idea behind this unique service is to popularize Zero Tolerance to Road Rage (ZTTR)’s efforts in wiping out road rage from the roads of the world through peaceful interventions. It envisages the road words receiving the highest number of discussions, likes, shares and follows. In fact, it will not be a surprise if you see some road words actually going viral!

The service solicits responses from word-lovers in the form of suggestions such as alternative road usage sentences or even ideas for new Road Words of the Day. Users are also requested to send constructive suggestions on ZTTRR’s fight against road rage.

Users can subscribe to the Road Word of the Day service on Facebook, Twitter, Google Group and WordPress.

From now on, I am making it a point to re-blog the Road Word of the Day, every day it is posted on the ZTTRR blog.  Here is the list of Road Words featured till now. Click on them to read the complete posts.

esprit de l’escalier	logorrhea / logorrhea (US English)
solecism	déjà vu
panjandrum	factotum
mens rea	je ne sais quoi
phillumenist	ex nihilo
nolens volens	discalced
bête noire	oppugn
frisson	alter ego

I will be glad to know your take on this. Leave a comment below.

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