That manual insists on uniformity down to the permitted height of the grass and how trees must be pruned! During his three years as Air Attaché in Paris, Varthaman participated in numerous commemoration functions honouring the Indian dead. He can’t help but wonder why India doesn’t, in a similar way, honour those who died in India’s later wars. India Gate in Delhi, modelled on Menin Gate of Ypres, was a British one to Indian soldiers who died in the Great War. In other words, not enough information was in the Tamil Lexicon on the origins and historical development of words.

Source: The Hindu February 20, 2017 09:53 UTC