Saturday, November 30, 2013
Tarun Tejpal, a situation where a judge abstains or is compelled to abstain in a particular case because of conflict of interests........what is your understanding of this word? Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, November 4, 2013
Say the word racist and you think of...
black and white, one set of people looking down on another based on the colour of their skin, or based on perceptions of descent, hierarchies and power......what else? Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Running with the hare and hunting with the hounds possible.
Often the expression running with the hare and hunting with the hounds is used negatively to denote that the person who does so is a fence-sitter. In some cases it may be so that the person wants to please both parties and cajoles that both are right. But in many cases, it may not also be so. Can't... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Say the word "New Year" and you think of...
a year that will be different from the last....better, calendars, diaries, planners, list of activities, how time flies, what else? Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Say the word gun and you think of
Connecticut and the school children, aim or target, licence, shooting, sport, sometimes also used as slang for penis.....what else? Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Say the word Santa and you think of...
the generous giver, the red outfit, the sackful of things, the gifts at Christmas, childhood nostalgia, school, instructions to be good, quid pro quo, Jingle bells, Christmas itself. What about you? Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Say the word chilly and you think of
the chilly proper, the pungency, a person with a sharp tongue, Radio Mirchi (Mirchi is the Hindi word for chilly), some restaurants with the name Mirchi or Chilly in them, the taste for the food we are eating, what else? Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Say the word 'weather' and you think of ...
whether it is warm or cold, the weather cock, those who talk about the weather and nothing else because that is the distance they want to keep, weathering i.e. braving all odds. what else? Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Say the word 'ice' and you think of...
Iceland, the cold - icy cold, the igloo and the eskimo, the distance between two people where the ice needs to be broken, ice-breaker games, summer, the refrigerator - what else? Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Say the word 'dice' and you think of...
the game of ludo, or snakes and ladders, of luck, of collections, of the rattling in a container, or of rolling it by one's hand.....what else? Sign in to see full entry.