Wordy phrases are the hallmark of Indian business writing. I guess, we inherited it from the British. We think that the more ‘formal’ the word used, the more important we sound! That’s not true. Fewer words make better writing. We often use two or three words where one word would do. This is what results in…
Clear And Simple Writing: The Power of One Idea
Writing is quite different from speaking. When we speak, we might say that whole sentence together, with a pause in between. Our expressions and pauses help the person we are talking to understand our meaning. Not so in writing. We have to be concise and clear in what we write. Let’s talk about the power…
Clear And Simple Writing : Short Sentences
We owe it to our readers to use clear and simple writing. There are way too many blogs to read, and the faster our readers get our message, the better! Let’s not make them sift through several layers of words to understand what we are saying. Clear And Simple Writing : Short Sentences Keep readers…
The secret to creativity – according to science
The secret to creativity – according to science Van Gogh’s The Starry Night. wikipedia, CC BY-SA Valerie van Mulukom, Coventry University Whether you get mesmerised by Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night or Albert Einstein’s theories about spacetime, you’ll probably agree that both pieces of work are products of mindblowing creativity. Imagination is what…
My Love For Frangipani
I think I first fell in love with this flower when I was a little girl and loved to string these pretty flowers strewn all over our lawn. Temple flowers we called them. They were white with yellow centres. Pretty, with a pleasing fragrance and so easily available. It’s only later that I learnt that…