I was just lazing around a Sunday afternoon, when I came across an article written by K Smiles. I tried to smile, but then I was awestruck by his knowledge and study of anagrams. If you have a good observation, you may have observed that the title of this article is made up of only three alphabets, rearranged into three different words. Got it? Welcome to the stupefying and crazy world of anagrams. Anagram is rearranging of alphabets in a word or a sentence. The word originated from its Greek counterpart: `anagrammatizein'. It means transpose letters. But the real fun in anagrams comes when the real word is related to the anagram in some way.

`Astronomers' becomes `Stars? No more' and the `moron stares'. Smiles tells an interesting anecdote about the English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. At the time of elections, his supporters coined an anagram - `Sir, I lead'! To which his opponents retaliated in the same way. They said - `Idle airs'!Anagrams, which co-incidentally reflect something about the originals are more interesting. Nobel laureate `Tagore' becomes `O Great'! More interesting is the nurse `Florence Nightingale' as - `Flit on, cheering angel'!

A `Surgeon' says `Go, nurse' while a `Revolution' has `to ruin love'. A `Telegraph' was of `great help' in `Old England' - `A golden land'. A `Ruse' (trick) has to be `sure'. `India' was `in aid'. `A shoplifter' `has to pilfer'.

After all, no `Scorpio' is `Sic' and `Poor'! Anyway, happy anagrammatization!