The essay focuses on political language, which, according to Orwell, "is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." Orwell believed that the language used was necessarily vague or meaningless because it was intended to hide the truth rather than express it.

    He is the acclaimed author of various books including a National Award winning book titled "Mrignayani" by the Govt of India.

    Although the book was primarily intended for philologists--its purpose being, in the author's words, 'to make Old Irish accessible to those familiar with the comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages'--it has been for more than a generation the standard work for all who have made Old Irish their special study. Since its SYSTEMation, however, considerable advance has been made in the investigation of the older language, much of it due to Thurneysen himself, and an up-to-date edition of the Handbuch has long been a desideratum of Irish scholar­ship.Ten years ago, the author, at the request of the IrishGovernment, undertook to prepare a new edition in English,in which he would have the assistance of a former pupil,Mr. Michael Duignan (now Professor of Celtic Archaeology inUniversity College, Galway). Mr. Duignan spent two years inBonn, working under Thurneysen's direction, mainly on aninterleaved copy of the German edition which contained far-reaching alterations and additions, and by 1938 he had com­pleted a draft English translation, the typescript of which was subsequently revised by Thurneysen. It was intended, onMr. Duignan's return to Ireland, that this version should beset up in galley-proofs and submitted to Thurneysen for further revision. But although about a third of the work was eventually set up, the outbreak of war in 1939 made communication between Dublin and Bonn virtually impossible, and in August of the following year came the news of Thurneysen's death.

    

    These problems, together with ways of dealoing with them, are discussed from the point of view of general semantics. This point of view emphasizes those aspects of the scientific method that are useful in daily living.