"Mumbai lingo is a bit different. There’s a lot of Hindi slang and it’s mostly abusive, but used a lot in the modeling circuit. [A fairly common term here] is ‘bombay docks’, used when a girl has bad body odour." (Mumbai model Sahil Shroff quoted in The slang bang! by Reshma Arya, DNA, December 4, 2006)
Late last month I realized that I had never read Irina Polyanskaya’s second
novel, Читающая вода [(The) reading water; Water that reads], and decided
to re...
2 comments:
This really is an awesome blog. We need more stuff like this about the ever-evolving Indian pop culture.
Any idea where I might find old MTV and Channel V ads? Looking to show people Quick Gun Murugan!
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really interesting stuff..hope to be a regular here.
keep up the gud work!
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