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12 Buzzwords Of 2007

Not much exercised by le mot juste, Indians fell back on these ever and anon

Headless Chickens - (n.)
Manglik - (n.)

Growth with Equity - (n.)

Favourite hand-wringing phrase of those who cannot decide whether they are for or against economic liberalisation.

Twenty20 - (n.)
Rupee Virus - n.)
Operationalise - (v.)
Narcoanalysis - (n.)

Judicial overreach - (n.)

Issuing directions on street-food vendors and nursery school admissions, while the judicial backlog hits three crore cases.

Brahmin Jodo Abhiyan - (n.)

Silent voter - (n.)

Gujarati who comes to the rescue of exit pollsters who get their predictions wrong.

Chak De - (v./tr.)
Near-miss - (n.)

illustrations by Sandeep Adhwaryu

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