Hello Editors,

James Romano's write up is as refreshing as the news he brought is gratifying.

In the Presidential Perspective, STC 2006 conference is mentioned. I think the reference is to the Hyderabad 2005 conference.

Grammar dose has the usual stuff that one can read (or should have already read before venturing into tech or any form of writing profession). If it doesn’t pep up, it will end up as grammar doze.

The beauty of English Language is that it changes and adapts itself to express ideas freely. It even adopts words from foreign languages to maintain its cutting edge in the power of expression. Thus we have Indian words like "hawala", "bandh", "dhaba", and "chamcha", in English lexicon. And the latest in the series is "Badmash". Mentor is a word derived from the Greek gentleman of that name in Odyssey. He 'mented' Telemachus. There is no word like mentee. (Reference: Member profile of Neelam Singh).