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You’ve been covidised by Sandip Roy

Click here to read the article: How the pandemic has changed our language - The Hindu As the pandemic rolls along, here’s a list of words that might burrow into our vocabulary and outlive it As the Covid pandemic rolls along, it has made us familiar with words which were once the domain of specialists — R0 Factor, RT-PCR, N95. It’s given us new words like doomscrolling and quarantini and covidiot. Oxford Dictionaries expanded its Word of the Year for 2020 to “Words for an Unprecedented Year”, including Covid-19, WFH, lockdown and that Zoom favourite — unmute. The Cambridge Dictionary chose quarantine. In 2021 Merriam Webster selected vaccine and Oxford chose its jauntier version, vax. It’s astonishing how the pandemic has changed our language by mainstreaming words that only epidemiologists once used, adding brand-new ones and resuscitating words that had existed in cobwebby corners of the English language. But as Omicron sweeps through 2022, it’s clear thi

Every stage was a canvas for Pandit Birju Maharaj, painter of rhythm The Kathak maestro revitalised the dance form, enthralling audiences over decades - Anuj Kumar A complete artist who lived music in its entirety, Kathak legend Pandit Birju Maharaj (1938-2022) transcended to a heavenly stage on Monday, leaving behind a rich legacy. Inspired by the rhythm of nature, every time he took the stage, it seemed the Almighty was dancing through him. Be it the movement of ants, a river in spate, a bird feeding its young or the Earth’s motion on its axis, there was nothing that escaped the Kathak maestro’s dancing eyes. Pandit Birju Maharaj’s eloquent facial expressions remained unmatched. For the Padma Vibhushan, Kathak was not limited to the parans and chakkars . The stage was a canvas for Maharajji, as he was popularly called, where he would etch paintings of Krishna and Radha’s divine romance th

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