Common mispronunciation of Lavelle Road by rowdy, oneandhalf charging autowallah and his ilk who incur consistent admonishing from the fat polissman for being speedy cowboys and breaking traffic signals at will.

As it would happen, the epithet thus bestowed holds quite true – Lavelle road happens to be one of Bangalore's cutest pocket of areas with even cuter houses. Lovely.

The iron toast simbly put is the good old buttered up bread toasted using an iron. Essential part of Indian boarding school lingo, the iron toast rules the roost in such hostels where any form of primitive gadgetry such as water heater were deemed contraband and seized by scheming wardens.

Ironically the iron happened to be one of the few gadgets permissible for possession on account of the perfect grooming prescribed for eng bais.

Emperor's New Clothes. Originates from the fairy tale with the same name written by Hans Christian Andersen. Used for a person who even though has no clue but participates in a discussion or agrees to some one else's opinion to appear that he knows. Much like the protagonist of the fairy tale, the king who is duped by the tailors who claim to make him an invisible fabric and succeed in doing so thanks to the pretense of his own subjects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes

A favourite punishment amongst the Indian Army training staff apart from rifle-lugging. Front roll is a corruption of the term Forward Roll, most likely borrowed from the Brit army who borrowed it from gymnastics.

The front or forward roll is started from a standing position. The gymnast then crouches down, places their hands shoulder width apart and hands facing forward. They tuck their chin to their chest and place the back of their head onto the floor. They then push off of the floor with their legs and rotate over their head onto their back. The gymnast then presses their feet onto the floor and whips the arms forwards to stand up.

A pun on the term – Marxist, but has nothing to do with its meaning whatsoever. A card carrying Marksist is one who's a sucker for marks and triples up as a total mugpot, teacher's pet and sometimes a very dangerous snitch, basically everything he can within his mortal power to score well.

Came into popular usage after the movie – In which Annie gives us those ones.

Back where I Come From. Official part and parcel of NRI lingo which is used for the sake of comparison in the state of affairs between motherland and faarin. Often looked down upon by hardcore Indian nationalists and sundry especially when used by people who pick up accents when they fly-over a country.

Galiyon ka Badshah. Person who knows his way around the city like the back of his band. He knows all the short-cuts by heart and many of the shortest-cuts in the city are attributed to him. He can take you to places in minimum time, avoiding all traffic signals, jams, greedy cops and chakkas. If you air-drop him blind-folded in any part of the city he will smell his way home and brake before every single speed breaker.

Death by Chocolate. By far the most popular ice-cream concoction at the legendary Corner House. An absolute winner amongst all age-groups luring people with its challenging nomenclature.

Part of Indian boarding school lingo attributed to the act of cleansing parts of your body visible after you've dressed, mostly limbs, neck and face of-course to look clean and presentable. Basin bath owes its origins to the hilly boarding schools of India where unassuming kids from sub-tropical regions are thrown into Siberian weather to be socially eloquent and educated.