12 Buzzwords Of 2007

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

12 Buzzwords Of 2007
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Headless Chickens - (n.)
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Manglik - (n.)
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Growth with Equity - (n.)
Favourite hand-wringing phrase of those who cannot decide whether they are for or against economic liberalisation.

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Twenty20 - (n.)
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Rupee Virus - n.)
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Operationalise - (v.)
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Narcoanalysis - (n.)
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Judicial overreach - (n.)
Issuing directions on street-food vendors and nursery school admissions, while the judicial backlog hits three crore cases.

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Brahmin Jodo Abhiyan - (n.)
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Silent voter - (n.)
Gujarati who comes to the rescue of exit pollsters who get their predictions wrong.

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

illustrations by Sandeep Adhwaryu

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