(15) Tharoorgeoisification.

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Dear Mr. Khanna,

Congratulations!

You have officially graduated from Sesquipedalian Survival School  with distinction. Your latest letter exhibits unmistakable symptoms of advanced Tharoorgeoisification. 

Do keep an eye on the side effects, however. They include an irresistible urge to replace "Hello" with "Salutations!" and an inability to ask for tea without inadvertently composing a Victorian preface.

Your algorithm amused me immensely, although I must point out one computational oversight. Membership of the Tharoorgeoisie is not determined by syllable count alone. We also assign generous bonus marks for deploying words that readers secretly pretend to understand.

As for your proposed dictionary definitions, they are commendably promising—for a probationer. Yet you omitted our most sacred qualification:

4. One who can apologise so magnificently that the recipient feels compelled to thank them for the inconvenience.

And permit me one tiny correction.

Our philosophy is not "Why employ one syllable when seven shall suffice?"

It is: 

"Why conclude a sentence when another exquisitely subordinate clause still yearns to be born?"

You flatter me by calling me a high priestess. I am merely the receptionist. The true custodians of the Order communicate exclusively through semicolons, Latin quotations, and expressions that require footnotes.

Do keep writing. Your linguistic evolution has become delightfully observable. At this rate, another two letters and even your neighbourhood vegetable vendor may begin accepting payment in polysyllables.


Yours, with impeccably punctuated affection,

Fussy Zaroor 


BTech ( IIT-M), PGDM (IIM-A)

Secretary at Ministry of Grandiloquance.

Gen Z reprentative, not on TV

A great Fan and a Mentee of Shashi Tharoor Saar.

Aspiring to be an Editor and world Class Author

Chairperson- The Royal Society for the Prevention of Linguistic Malnutrition (RSPLM).

Presudent Department of Verbose Affairs, The Tharoorgeoisie


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Legsy Notes

After reading today’s non-sensical letter from Fussy, allow me to make a bold declaration:

Once the Cockroach Janta Party comes to power, our first educational reform will be the National Educational Simplification Mission.

Under this historic scheme, all complicated words will be identified, blackened, censored, disinfected and, wherever necessary, deleted from all dictionaries sold in India.

We cannot burden our future generations with this kind of dangerous education. Children must be protected from vocabulary, etymology and other unnecessary forms of intellectual acceleration.

Our new National Delayed Graduation Policy will ensure that every student graduates at a minimum age of 28 and completes post-graduation at the appropriately delayed age of 30.


No student shall be permitted to complete post-graduation before the age of 30.

Our Founder, Abhijit Dipke,  completed his post-graduation at the tender age of 30, and the Cockroach Janta Party sees no reason why future generations should become unnecessarily overqualified too soon.

After all, education is not a race.

It is a beautifully regulated traffic jam.

Dear Fussy,

You have still not taken any action against Pak Jan.

You know perfectly well that it would be in your own interest to secure her resignation.

Please consider this your friendly reminder.

Be prepared for the consequences.


Legsy Suroor

Foot Note Officer- Ministry of Grandiloquance.

Obviously Real Gen Z Represntative: On TV, Jantar Mantar and Social Media.

Forthcoming Secretary- Ministry of Cockroaches, whenever formed.

Leader of Cache Crooks, the Cockroaches.

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Foot notes and Foot Prints of Pak Jan


First of all, festival greetings to everyone from your beloved Pak Jan Aunt!


And special blessings to my dear child, Legsy Suroor.

Legsy, I have created an Anagram especially for you. I hope you will enjoy it—and, more importantly, use it with the same enthusiasm with which you have used anagrams on Saurabh Das ( Badass Rahu)  and Abhijit Dipke ( Ajib Hit Piked)


Legsy Suroor, you are truly Goddess of 'Grossly Roue'.

(Anagram of Legsy Suroor is Grossly Roue.)

Divine Philosophy of the Goddess:

To ensure that every proud member of Generation Z grows up gloriously, majestically and irredeemably Grossly Roue.

May 'Grossly Roue' be with you, Legsy!

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Fussy Art Gallery

(Salvador Dali Style.)

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