A student once asked him for a new word, in view of his reputation as a ’fount of exotic vocabulary’ to which Tharoor dropped a simple reply the word ‘Read’.

He further went on to say ‘that’s the only way I have acquired the vocabulary. People think I am some sort of a nut case who studies dictionaries all day long…I have barely opened a dictionary in my life’

‘I have read extensively…I had some advantages over all of you..I lived in India without television, without computers, without playstation, without mobile phones….all I had was books’.

His usage of words in sentences are magical and a delight to hear.In fact his huge fan following so used to his ‘words out of the hat’ syndrome, got flummoxed when due to a typographical autocorrect error a word ‘than ghoonghat’ in reference to the movie ‘Padmavati’ was wrongly typed as ‘thang hoong hats ’took it as the actual word and lost a few hairs flipping the Wikipedia and dictionaries

From the Wizard of words , the book shares 53 examples from his vocabulary : unusual words from every letter of the alphabet.You don’t have to be a linguaphile to enjoy the fun facts and interesting anecdotes behind the words.

Tharoorosaurus is a book to possess, enjoy and ignite the passion into the world of words. For all ages

(The author of this book review is a Lucknow-based businessman and Co-Chairman PHD Chambers of Commerce and the Founder Chair of Confederation of Indian Industry-Young Indians.)

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