If you want to understand us desis, look no further than the products and brands we use and extol. Smiling when you hear tell of gold spot or thumbs up or maggi or mango duet or even driving around in an amby? We consume domestic brands with pride and jingoism (Gandhi once famously said "be indian, buy indian"). We love our biscuits (see Parle G) as much as we love our homegrown desi whisky (see Peter Scott) and our soft khadi half pants!
However, this is not to say that foreign brands have not laid their prehensile grip on the desi psyche.The wealthy lap up amreekan brands the way a Tambrahm inhales curdrice in the afternoon (quiz question: what do wealthy Tambrahms from foreign inhale?). Sometimes western taste goes into a Videocon Washing Machine and comes out as a safari suit on a naughty indian uncle with an attache!
Our ad industry is so creative that one of the most popular high school activities during a cul-fest is to parody major ads (see mad ads). Sometimes we go too far -- heard of the Ford Figo fiasco?
This category is dedicated to products good and bad, mad and rad. Enjoy this page. And come back often. Bye bye, Tata!
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In a more literary context - Of dubious or dodgy nature.
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Bro: Dude, washing machine not working!
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Pre-decessor of the modern day cupboards- usually an old, heavy, teak-wood contraption which has a set of drawers top to bottom. On the top are two drawers side by side, which were used to store all kinds of knicknacks- a typical drawer could have hundreds of forks, spoons, knives of all shapes and sizes. The lower drawers were single - often 4 feel long, used to store all kinds of large items that were too big to fit into the smaller ones. The large size of drawers invariably gave you a strained muscle if you pulled too hard to open them - inevitable in the monsoon when the wood expanded and the drawer got stuck in an awkward half open half closed position and refused to move in or out despite our best efferts
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A jholawala may be a JNU type, or, at best, a mystic; a JNU type is very likely to be a jholawala.
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Historically, usurious companies like Western Union, MoneyGram and/or banks would help with the movement of this money; oftentimes charging exorbitant prices. The money would also arrive on IST.
Xoom is a disruptive cross-border money transfer or remittances company that makes it fast and cheap for Indians abroad to send money to India. They are have gained so much traction that they now have Big B dressed up in a blue velvet jacket, supporting the brand.
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Mumbai now has its own logo. Issued by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) the logo is supposed to represent Mumba Devi, the deity the city is named after. "Majhi Mumbai" or "my Mumbai" is the slogan on the logo.
Indian obsession with a woman's maternal role (see above mother there is no other) is clearly visible in the city's logo where a blue dot atop a black circular outline of arms denotes a mother embracing a white flower, symbolic of a child it simms.
If you ask us, it looks like a Fatty Bombalatty fellow rubbing his stomach after consuming jalebi mixed with a small ganja leaf or a post-prandial Mumbaikar ambling around Chaupati after eating Bhelpuri!
Samosapedia gives it a B-
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Used in its normal form it conveys a negative message about anything its being used with. It symbolizes a state of a very high impossibility of anything being good or happening.
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Man2 : Chance ey illa.
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TK Layout - MysoreDefinition
means something that is unique and different. it is an adverb but used mostly as adjective.
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swimming in outdoor pool at sub zero temperatures in north of russia is khara zehr experience
chameli by katrina is khara zehr performance
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Whether you snapped your buddy's new Natraj pencil clean in two or smashed your amma's favourite flower pot, just reach for salvation in the guise of that ubiquitous white tub with the royal blue lid... you know the one I'm talking about, behind the Bombay Anandabhavan sweets box full of used up ball point pens.
But first you'd have to pry the lid off with a screwdriver since it's sealed shut from a previous layer of hardened gum. Then peel back the half inch thick layer of useless skin caked over from when your cousin brother left it open after wrapping his fair notebooks in brown paper. Under which is the last millimetre of precious white amber with 3-4 houseflies preserved in it for posterity.
The best tool for application, unless you'd purchased the high end version with the (single-use) plastic brush, is the tip of your index finger. When you're done with the functional part of your project, go ahead and add an extra glob of Fevicol on your fingertip and gently blow until it dries there.
Now you can pretend to touch your friends with a dangerous gummed finger and watch them freak out and laugh like anything at their gullibility. Fun!!!
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Mummy: "Just put Fevicol for now. When your father comes I'll ask him where he kept the bandages. Only he knows..."
Somu: "Fevicol on my hurt??? No..."
Mummy: "Your choice, otherwise I'll put Tincture of Benzene!"
Somu: "Noooooooooo...!"
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Ad Executive 2: Mad or what?....feels like a Ford Figosco