Examples of typical Mumbai-isms
* Yeh mehengai bahut costly ho gaya hai aaj kal
*Aaj aapun ka bad luck hi kharaab hai
*Arrey uska room kya mast hai.. paanch bada bada kamra hai
(room is a synonym for an apartment, while kamra ofcourse is room)
*yeh aaj kal tension ka bahut magajmari hai
One encounters these and such like on a daily basis, but dare not smirk..
ekdum serious se sunne ka
Its all about loving your parents’ money!!
Married couples are using the anti-dowry laws to implicate their parents/in-laws to part with their wealth or to live separately.
Please refer to this link.
In a shocking trend, some middle class married women, in league with their (more…)
Mahant- literally means Maha anant or supreme bliss ,mahaan atma or great soul who enjoys supreme bliss..
After what seems like aeons, have heard of somebody who has done something more than pay cursory lip service to deserve this title.
He has single handedly, merely by the force of his presence and weight of his words averted what could have been a major crisis in Varanasi.
Not just that.
His stand and averments made renowned lyricist poet Javed Akhtar (husband of actress Shabana Azmi) exclaim “I want to touch his feet!”
After reading the report, one is compelled to boldly assert
“MAHANT JI WE ARE PROUD OF YOU”.
Know more about Mahant Virbhadra Mishra
Don’t quite know what that means? Its not some mumbo jumbo but IMHO a really thought provoking terminology, coined I daresay for the youth , by the youth.
Simply put, it is the period between ages 21-29, when yougsters are reacting to the bombardment of information of newer choices and are enjoying the ‘thinking out of the box ‘ syndrome. (more…)
Today was an interesting day . One of those which compels you to analyse, prioritize and deduce.
A friend, good friend I must add, since she has always been a well wisher, questioned the choice of my posts, Let me clarify here. Her objection was not to what was being written, rather to what was not getting written.. She was surprised and disappointed she said, that (more…)
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