Just when the Gen Z slang quiz wrapped up, the host flipped the challenge to Hindi vocabulary — and Tharoor immediately looked alarmed. “Oh my word, this is going to be disastrous,” he said with ...

For instance, the Class VI English textbook, earlier called Honeysuckle, has been renamed as ‘Poorvi’, a Hindi word meaning ‘eastern’ and is also the name of a classical music saga. Similarly, ...