Bottled Water brands? My favourite is the one that indicates that the drinker is merely a middle-man, the necessary processing plant to produce the "real" product: it is simply called Pee Mee.
Anita Roy
Editor
This 22-year-old impresario has crammed into his short adult life what most of us might never achieve.
The high points were listening to writers like Nadeem Aslam, Amit Chaudhuri and Rana Dasgupta not only reading their work, but discussing the possibilities, the responsibilities and the limitations of being a writer
'Doing the needful' is a particularly Indian phrase designed to indicate that the person being requested to do it is about tolaunch on the kind of irrelevant, convoluted, tortuous, meandering maze that would make Kafka break out in hives.
It seems not very long ago that the word "solution" had a particular meaning. In the 1990s, it suddently took on a new aspect, spreading like a heinous computer virus that no firewall could stop.
What is this, Bloomspuri? Anita Roy asks the non-Dilliwala writers who have made this city their own
Charge-sheeting, undertrials, goonda-tax: the papers are rife with this criminal lexicon. Nouns mug verbs, adverbs bump off verbs, adverbs are adjectivised with impunity.
After 10 years, close observation and hard research, I have a pretty low opinion of Indian urban male sexuality, but even I had trouble plumbing these depths.
The jargon of selling living space is an art in itself. A poky, hot, dark flat is transformed in print to become a "surprisingly spacious, south-facing residence"...
If I see one more oil-smoothed, side-partinged, smug little totlet parroting Newton's Third Law of Motion, I shall puke.
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