“Party animals dressed to the nines painted the town red”
I’d forgotten how much I love Indian English 🙂 This little gem (below) is in the gossip column of this morning’s paper and it cheers my heart, after 2 long …
Category: Language
Hindi word of the day : “mahapaapi”
Yesterday the Chief Minister of Bihar, Mr. Nitesh Kumar, said the following on the subject of drinking alcohol (he spoke in Hindi, but here’s the English translation). According to Mr. …
“Is this in Latin?”
The Indian Supreme Court has taken exception to the incomprehensible language used by the Himachal Pradesh High Court. The Supreme Court was so bemused by a 2017 judgement from the …
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 …
Your Hindi word of the day: mawali
Politicians are very useful people. Especially for people like me, who still have so much Hindi vocab to learn. Yesterday, our esteemed Minister of State in the Ministry of External …
What’s the Hindi word for “shape-shifter”?
Thanks to the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Modi, I know the answer. The PM was recently talking about the virus mutating. “This virus is famous for changing itself through …