Slang for "Flake" as in "Gold Flake Cigarette"

Commonly used in schools & colleges where the coolness factor is of utmost importance. 'Sidey' refers to anything that just is not cool (enough). Something or somebody who should not be touched with a yard-pole; should not be hung out with; should not be worn; should not be watched; etc etc.

In a more literary context - Of dubious or dodgy nature.

Chest-of-drawers - commonly written as chest-o'-drawers -
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

A jholawala is someone who walks around with a jhola, which is a type of cloth bag, and exudes an air of artistic and literary erudition, with a distinct "son or daughter of the soil" vibe. This might include dressing up in a Kurtha Pyjama or at least wearing a kurtha shirt over jeans, along with sandals. The jhola itself may vary in look, feel, colour pattern, and size, ranging from Tibetan themes to the use of khadi.

A jholawala may be a JNU type, or, at best, a mystic; a JNU type is very likely to be a jholawala.

For many Indians, after spending several grueling years in Tuitions and IIT-JEE classes, success = getting on an Air India plane and going to Amreeka or the Gelf only to earn money and send it back to their loving ammas who will proudly say "from where to where" my little beta has gone. This proclamation of maternal pride is typically made over some hot celebratory gajar ka halwa!

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.

Hey Mumbai trying to copy your cousin brother NYC is it? Should we sing Copy Cat Kill a Rat Sunday Monday Eat Your Rat?
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-

chance ey illa : is a combination of two words from two separate languages combined together to form one single phrase to convey a message of Impossibility.

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.

unique mix of two words from two different dialects combined to form Khara (Marwari#Bitter) & Zehr (Urdu#Poison)

means something that is unique and different. it is an adverb but used mostly as adjective.

The second-most popular sticky substance in the sub-continent, after "gum", it will repair just about everything including a broken heart if one was to believe the latest (brilliant) ad campaigns on TV.

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!!!

We all know what a fiasco is. But a Ford Figoso is a different type of fiasco. Neologism coined by Samosapedia to refer to an ad campaign gone terribly wrong. Has its origins in the egregious Ford ads. In one ad, three bound and gagged Kardashian sisters are depicted in the custody of Paris Hilton. In another, the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi smiles and flashes a two-fingered V-for-victory sign like a naughty indian uncle from the driver’s seat of a red Figo, while three comically exposed bunga-bunga party participants with ball gags in their mouths are bound hand-and-foot in the dicky.