Sunday, December 16, 2012

This...


from Hindustan Times:

The store will showcase "ready to wear and practical" fashion clothing lines across women's wear, accessories with about 100 new contemporary, traditional and bridal, Indo-western wear, completely hand-woven inspired by ancient Indian heritage like kanjeevarams instilled with classic kalamkaris and zardozi.

Broke my head and stretched the deadline for each item, and made it to:

The store will showcase a "ready to wear and practical" fashion clothing line across women's wear, accessories, and about 100 new designs in contemporary, traditional, bridal, and Indo-western wear. The fabrics used are hand-woven and inspired by ancient Indian designs, such as Kanjeevarams with classic kalamkari and zardozi work.

I still can't make out if this makes sense...

Friday, December 14, 2012

A convoluted sentence...

if ever there was one.

I came across this in the Times of India when editing for my nl. (The TOI has been, of late, coming up with statements that I have to pore over just to get to the kernel).


A new American Cancer Society study has revealed that people who drank more than four cups of caffeinated coffee per day were at about half the risk of death of these often fatal cancers compared to those who only occasionally or who never drank coffee.

On reading and re-re-re-reading the article as it appeared in the paper, this is finally what I got:

A new American Cancer Society study has revealed that people who drank more than four cups of caffeinated coffee per day were at about half the risk of death due to oral cancer as compared to those who only occasionally, or never drank coffee.