Mumbai glossary 23 May 2013 | 07:17 pm

The current issue of Time Out Mumbai has a glossary of "city slang, lingo and khali pili faltu giri". A few random selections that range from old favourites (ghanta) to recent coinages (raita phalana)...

David Crystal on Indian English 5 May 2013 | 10:12 am

Daal gosht 5 May 2013 | 10:00 am

A Mumbai Mirror report on street vendors of mobile phone porn includes some of their jargon. Read about kaand videos,  staged to resemble amateur MMS scandal clips, and code words like daal gosht and ...

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