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Penguin has come up with an exclusive dictionary
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A first of its kind a Hindi-English and English-Hindi dictionary has been launched by Penguin in association with Yatra books. The dictionaries come in a set of three, which consists a English to Hindi Dictionary, Hindi to English dictionary and a H
indi-English Thesaurus in a slip-case. Arvind Kumar and his wife Kusum Kumar have authored the dictionaries.They are also co-authors of “Samantar Kosh”, a Hindi thesaurus. Arvind started as a freelance journalist and has been the editor of Sarvottam, the Hindi edition of Reader’s Digest and Madhuri, a Hindi film fortnightlyHe has also authored a range of Hindi translations of famous works like “Julius Caeser” and “Sahaj Geeta”. It took him almost three decades for the couple to complete the books and the result is nothing but spectacular.
The compilation is exclusive in many ways as it is the first ever dictionary consisting of 548,330 expressions half in English and half in Hindi with cross references to similar or opposite concepts. It also includes cultural variations of the words in both languages. This is one more step towards promoting and spreading multiculturalism as language is the essence of any culture.
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