Rowdies beware!
Over the last few days I have shared with you 2 delicious stories about wonderful south Indian names – remember the political brothers and the photographic brothers? And just yesterday …
Category: Hinglish
The delights of Indian English
I think I’ve told you before how much I love Indian English. It is in a league of its own, an intoxicating mix of often old-fashioned, stylised English + quirky …
Indian English on dazzling display
I am grateful to the fearsomely talented Tunku Varadarajan for alerting me to the 570 page judgement of the Supreme Court yesterday, on a corruption case involving a late Chief minister …
Your Hindi word of the day – “chakotra”
As in pomelo. And, I suspect, by default, grapefruit. (But I am open to correction here, friends.) But right now, though, we are talking about the huge fat pomelos that …
Fog, yet more fog, and a lovely new word
Just in case any of you thought I was being a whingeing Pom in yesterday’s blog, cribbing about the weather, kindly take a look at this morning’s banner headline : …
Hindi & a bit of Hinglish
Corinne, a French friend, asked for some explanations of Hindi words I have used, so here goes (and Hindi speakers, please feel free to correct me) *shutterbug – excited Indian …