“….Empowering communication Skills provides ample authoritative models from stellar Anglophone writers and cleverly conceived exercises that should help dedicated students improve their communicative competence. This is a book that will be useful not only to Indian students and professionals but also to their counterparts in the Kachruvian ‘outer Circle’ of English speakers, especially those who do not speak this foremost world lingua franca natively”. Prof. Salikoko S. Mufwene, University of Chicago