English words that mean different in India

India is the second largest English speaking country in the world. From BPOs to bestselling authors, Indians have found their way everywhere because of the English language. Though we've developed a new fusion language called 'Hinglish', which we speak most commonly, there are a few words and phrases in English whose meanings change considerably when we use them in India.While 'please adjust' may mean to 'alter or move something slightly', when we say 'adjust' in India, we're usually in a bus or a metro asking people help us squeeze in when there's clearly no place to sit. The mall may be a place where people go to shop, but in India the mall is also the place where you catch up with friends, go on a date, and take selfies for Facebook profile pictures.Here are some other English words and phrases that mean something else in India.

‘Excuse me’: Usually used as a request or an apology, if you utter this phrase in India you’re most likely squeezing through a crowd. Most people in the crowd won’t respond to you and may not even move aside to let you pass. But you will be ‘excused’ by a few.

‘Stand in queue’: Generally used to inform people to stay in line, if you see a sign that asks people to stand in a queue in India, it will usually be above a chaotic ticket counter.

‘No parking’: Ideally a place where you cannot park your vehicle. India meaning: If you cannot find parking anywhere, it’s okay to park your vehicle under the ‘no parking’ sign while keeping an eye on it.

‘Marriage’: In India, marriages are occasions where every 20-something’s parents are going to be finding them a match from the guests at the gathering.

‘Crowded’: While a crowd may mean a ‘small and definable’ group of people, but in India it usually means a large jamboree of countless people.

‘One-way road’: Ideally, a road where traffic goes only in one direction. In India a one-way road is a path you can sometimes take when you need to get home early and there are no cops around, or a road you take because the u-turn is too far away.

‘Mall’: Used by people across the world to shop, we don’t just go to the mall to buy things on sale. We also go to attend parties, laze around and take selfies for Facebook profile pictures here.

‘Cartoon’: An animated film or a strip. In India you can call someone who looks funny a cartoon and also use it to pack your stuff while shifting houses. (Yes, a carton.)

‘Cousins’: Cousins are relatives with whom a person ‘shares common ancestors’. In India they are people your parents will compare your grades, salary packages, and their son/daughter-in-law.

‘Sports’: Football, hockey, cricket, tennis are all types of sports. In India, however, when you say sports, you’re definitely talking about cricket.

‘Fast food’: Pizzas and burgers may be the world’s favourite form of fast food, when in India, it usually means ‘momos’ and ‘chow mein’ at the fast food corner.

‘God’: The world may worship a supreme being as God, in India God includes Sachin Tendulkar and 33 crore other idols.

‘Long-drive’: A long drive to the country side is how the world may enjoy it. A long drive on a pleasant day in India usually means going down the nearest highway and occasionally getting stuck in traffic jams.

‘Convent’: Usually a residence for Christian nuns, you might find convent being used to describe schools in India, at times even those schools that aren’t even run by nuns!

 not even move aside to let you pass. But you will be ‘excused’ by a few.

‘Stand in queue’: Generally used to inform people to stay in line, if you see a sign that asks people to stand in a queue in India, it will usually be above a chaotic ticket counter.

‘No parking’: Ideally a place where you cannot park your vehicle. India meaning: If you cannot find parking anywhere, it’s okay to park your vehicle under the ‘no parking’ sign while keeping an eye on it.

‘Marriage’: In India, marriages are occasions where every 20-something’s parents are going to be finding them a match from the guests at the gathering.

‘Crowded’: While a crowd may mean a ‘small and definable’ group of people, but in India it usually means a large jamboree of countless people.

‘One-way road’: Ideally, a road where traffic goes only in one direction. In India a one-way road is a path you can sometimes take when you need to get home early and there are no cops around, or a road you take because the u-turn is too far away.

‘Mall’: Used by people across the world to shop, we don’t just go to the mall to buy things on sale. We also go to attend parties, laze around and take selfies for Facebook profile pictures here.

‘Cartoon’: An animated film or a strip. In India you can call someone who looks funny a cartoon and also use it to pack your stuff while shifting houses. (Yes, a carton.)

‘Cousins’: Cousins are relatives with whom a person ‘shares common ancestors’. In India they are people your parents will compare your grades, salary packages, and their son/daughter-in-law.

‘Sports’: Football, hockey, cricket, tennis are all types of sports. In India, however, when you say sports, you’re definitely talking about cricket.

‘Fast food’: Pizzas and burgers may be the world’s favourite form of fast food, when in India, it usually means ‘momos’ and ‘chow mein’ at the fast food corner.

‘God’: The world may worship a supreme being as God, in India God includes Sachin Tendulkar and 33 crore other idols.

‘Long-drive’: A long drive to the country side is how the world may enjoy it. A long drive on a pleasant day in India usually means going down the nearest highway and occasionally getting stuck in traffic jams.

‘Convent’: Usually a residence for Christian nuns, you might find convent being used to describe schools in India, at times even those schools that aren’t even run by nuns!

Ya Kai Fashion Chhe Bhaya?

kOthari is nO mOre

My facebook status with all original comments.

ME: Aaj agar KothariJi jinda hote to kahte, "beta, aj tune mera naam roshan kar iya podar se passout hokar tujhe job mil gyi!!aur sabse bdi baat salary bi mil rhi h."


Bishamber Singh likes this.
Bishamber Singh agar kothari ji jinda hote toh unki baduaa se teri job hi nhi lagti mar gye tabhi job lgi h teri.
Shrikant Kumawat bhai mujhe bda dukh h unke gujar jane ka, bde bhale aadmi the. bhagwan narak ki sari aatmao ko shanti de....
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ME : Pity for Osama, now he has to share a room with Kothari 
in the 'Hell'...


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Mamta Koli ye kya ulte seedhe comment jarta rahta hai
Syed Faiz Ali ha ha ha..
Shrikant Kumawat ab ye kothari chahe kitna hi gira hua aadmi kyo na ho, uske kadradano ki kabhi kami nhi rhi....
Syed Faiz Ali tum kya kar rahe ho bhai.. degree nahi chahiye kya
Shrikant Kumawat achaar dalna h degree ka, plane banane k alawa kya kaam ayegi? Us degree ki valve hi kya jo kothari jaise logo ko 25 saal phle mil chuki h...
Syed Faiz Ali ha ha ha .. cant bear it man.. u r so aggressive

and I got my 10 Rs. back..

Guys you all know how telecom companies sucking their customers in India by telemarketing stupid products by calls and messaging. But the most irritating thing is deducting balance without any reason or just starting any value added service without customer's permission.

I also faced the same irritating situation this week. I have a TATA DOCOMO no. for last one month, I purchased this particular company's SIM because they have best internet browsing plans in my knowledge. But from the very first day I'm having so many telemarketing calls and that's not a big thing because you have to activate the DND your new SIM but problem is that it is not activating for last one month.

The problem started when I recharged  my no. with a Rs. 65 RC for Internet, but instead giving me 2.5 GB data balance they credited 3600 free local TATA mins to my account.

I talked to customer care about the issue but it didn't helped. By not getting a satisfactory reply I just mailed to the HRM department, informing about my problem.

 On 2/27/11, shrikant kumawat <shrikantjaipur@gmail.com> wrote:
 Hi,
 My No. is 7418086065, I'm living at Chennai. Today I recharged my No.
 with RC 65 for GPRS, but instead giving me 2.5 GB data they gave some
 3600 local TATA mins to me.
 The customer care executive says that they changed the GPRS plan to RC 63
 now.

 But you are still advertising about RC 65 plan, what is that?
 Now tell me what should I do with these free mins, Among all my
 friends I'm the only fool who has DOCOMO SIM.

 :( :((

For this they didn't reply, but after 4-5 days I got another issue. Without my asking they started a value added service 'personalized horoscope' and deducted 10 Rs. from my account.

I again talked to customer care and got the same reply, and then again mail to HRM department.

Complain/2

 Just 4 days ago I lost 65 rupees, and today again they start a
 'personalized horoscope' service without my request in any form.

 After my complain they dis-activate the service, but what about the
 money I lost due to this.

 Before DOCOMO I have use Airtel, Reliance and IDEA, but I thing DOCOMO
 is worst service provider in among these companies.

 Pls reply, don't be so dumb.

This time I got was lucky and got a reply.

 Dear Customer,

 Thank you for writing to us.

 We are in receipt of your mail dated 02-Mar-2011 as regards balance issue
 for TATA DOCOMO number 7418086065.

 We regret the inconvenience caused to you.

 We request you to kindly revert with the deducted amount and date on which
 your balance has been deducted to assist you better.

 Please feel free to contact us at 121 from your TATA DOCOMO mobile phone or
 9043012345 from a Non DOCOMO mobile phone.

 Assuring you of our best services at all times.

 Warm Regards,
 Neha Sharma
 TATA DOCOMO

And I replied...

Dear Ma'am,

Its not about the money, but the irritation I got due to all this.

Personalized Horoscope Service (10 Rs.) It started automatically.

RC 65 (It was for Internet browsing but instead they debited some 3600
free tata to tata mins to my account, please cancel this and debit
this much of talk time if possible.)


Regards,
Shrikant Kumawat

Contact No. 7418086065

Next day I got a mail from the HRM with the message

Dear Customer,

Thank you for writing to us.

We are in receipt of your mail dated 03-Mar-2011 as regards balance issue for TATA DOCOMO number 7418086065.

Please be informed that the amount of Rs. 10 has been credited into your account on 04-Mar-2011.

Further we would like to inform you that we are unable to change the plan.

For further assistance, call us at: 121 from TATA DOCOMO number or 9036012345 from a Non TATA DOCOMO mobile phone.

Assuring you of our best services at all times.

Warm Regards,
Neha Sharma
TATA DOCOMO

That's how I got my 10 Rs. back but what about the 65 rupee recharge, well I think I should just forget about that. 

Funny Facts

If time doesn't wait for you, don't worry!
Just remove the damn battery from the clock and Enjoy life!

Expecting the world to treat u fairly coz u r a good person is like expecting the lion not to attack u coz u r a vegetarian. Think about it.

Don't walk as if you rule the world, walk as if you don't care who rules the world! That's called Attitude! Keep on rocking!

Every lady hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did!!!

He was a good man. He never smoked, drank & had no affair. When he died, the insurance company refused the claim.

They said, he who never lived, cannot die!

A man threw his wife in a pond of Crocodiles?
He's now being harassed by the Animal Rights Activists for being cruel to the Crocodiles!

So many options for suicide: Poison, sleeping pills, hanging, jumping from a building, lying on train tracks, but we chose Marriage,
slow & sure!

Only 20 percent girls have brains, rest have boyfriends!

All desirable things in life are either
illegal, banned, expensive or married to someone
else!

Laziness is our biggest enemy- Jawaharlal Nehru
We should learn to love our enemies- Mahatma Gandhi
Ab aap bataaye kiski sune - bapu ji ya chacha ji???

When things go wrong, when sadness fills your heart, when tears flows from your eyes always say these words:
Eh Ganpat, chal daru la.

10% of road accidents are due to drunken driving. Which makes it a logical statement that 90% of accidents are due to driving without drinking!
Piyo Sar Utha Ke!

Harbhajan's Heroic Century Saved the Test

Very Very Special Laxman’s decent inning and Harbhajan Singh’s spectacular maiden ton were enough to save the first test match against severely wounded NZ that recently lost both test and ODI series by Bangladesh, a very ordinary cricket team to combat. It was a very rare test match having a very absurd turn that put the Indian team in an almost losing the match situation from nearly won the match situation, within mere 31 balls of pacer Martin. And by the end of day 4, India was in a very uncomfortable situation, having just 115 runs lead and already loses its six wickets. But both the player of Indian squad Laxman and Harbhajan saved the test which almost won by kiwis.  

"Bhajji tusi..........
RASGULLE ki pl8 ho,
PEPSI ka cr8 ho,
ANDE ka oml8 ho,
TUSI bade hi gr8 ho"

These are the lines wrote by a cricket fan, showing the love for heroic inning played by Harbhajan today. 

One more Indian fan commented "India to be no.1, its not because of dhoni's captaincy. Its all bcoz of the great players in indian team, and the platform set by the greatest captain ever for india that is sourav ganguly, the performing players are here bcoz of ganguly."

I'm writing a novel

No, No, I'm not just joking, the title is as true as the honesty of hon-able Mr.Suresh Kalmari or that of Mr. Ashok Chavan. I'm very very serious about writing the novel, my first one though, but I'm sure I will make you forgive the greatest of great writers ever walked over this earth, as soon the novel reaches to you. Now I guess you want to ask me that what heavenly stuff I'm writing that making me so optimistic about this. So friends this super novel is not a regular novel with a fishy love story or a boring criminal saga or a super cooled booker winning stuff, which nobody could ever understood. This story is very special, first of all because I'm writing this, and other reason is that this is coming directly out of my super mind. You may wonder but it took me over 8 years to finish it's first para, only because it takes a lot of hard work to inking so great thoughts on paper. 

You will be surprised that I have even decided to make a movie based on the story of the novel. A movie which will demolish all the bloody records which are standing tall today. And the very first show of the movie will be screened at our parliament, which would be a historical event, since it would be the first time in history of Indian constitution that a great movie will be screened at the great parliament house.

Well the story of the so called novel or movie is about a son of a famous politician of India, the location of the politician doesn't matter since all the politician from across the country posses the same characteristics and the same character. The guy will be doing only one thing in the whole story, f****** pretty girls and women, as the our politician do, they even f*** all other living and long living creatures also. But as it happen in all 'lived happily ever' after kind of story the young guy will be caught in a supernatural kind of place and will lost his all the best friends and than will understand the true meaning of life.

But I'm not sure how many years it will take to finish the job of writing the novel. Here a simple math student can conclude that I'm going to finish it before the earth stops rotating or before all the Indian politicians turns into as honest person as Gandhi was.  

Hey GOD!!! Are You There???

The title of the article may seem a little crazy since it clearly gives a message that the writer doesn't believe or at least is not sure about the existence of the so called omnipresent God, and Atheism or agnosticism are considered some sort of craziness on the planet Earth. There are a hefty number of people distributed in different nationality, religion, age,  proffession etc. who considered themselves atheist or agnosticism.The number goes upto 85% in countries like Sweden, who prefer to be non-religious; Denmark, Finland, Norway are also not too behind.

As some people may think, Atheism is not a new phenomenon. Ancient Hindus founded 'Atheistic school' and it existed from historical vedic religion.  Among the six historical schools in ancient India, 'Samakhya' and 'Mimansa' rejected the notion of God. However the 'Carvaka' school which was originated in 6th century BC was most explicitly Atheist school of ancient India. In modern time many religions are allowing their follower to be a atheist, Jainism and Buddhism are more open in this sense. 

 It is not that Atheism is spreading and Religious bodies are not doing anything, they are doing all the possible thing for maintain their religion's popularity. Recently Pope Benedict XVI said that Atheism is like Nazism. The church have been criticizing and thrashing all the atheist activities for the centuries, but even it's punishments could not stop the juggernaut of Atheism. 

Now the question remains intact that does God exist or not. I won't give the usual answer of this question that it depends on your belief. To me it doesn't matter what is your belief, since your belief can't change the reality. If the God doesn't exists and somebody say I believe in God so that will create a God but only in his dreams. Their are many evidences which gives some idea about the existence of God but unfortunately we don't believe anything without  experiencing it. Also evidences are innumerable and a single evidence has n number of meanings attached with it.  So only in one condition we can say that God exist if come and tell us that hello, look at me, I'm real. Without that we can not say that he is not a creation of our mind but a thing with a tag attached with it, saying 'AUTHENTICATED'

Mature enough to appreciate your views; immature enough to read and forget all the criticism....

STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH

For a long time I was thinking to write an article about this book, but only now I could manage to find some free time for it. I'm not a type of person who write with cotton in ears but some peaceful environment is must to concentrate one's thoughts in a proper way. So after gathering my strength, here we go.....

'STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH' is a book by Indian writer Rashmi Bansal. Published in 2008, this book talks about 25 IIM Ahmedabad graduates who choose their own path, a path of entrepreneurship. These people defied the system which forces students to be a part of rat race which ends up leaving them en-caged forever. Among these people some are very well known names in the Indian Corporate, such as Sanjeev Bhikhchandani, R subramaniam, Narendra Murkunbi, Nirmal Jain etc who achieved a very reputed position in business world. Choosing entrepreneurship over hefty packages offered by top MNCs was not a easy decision for them but the passion and determination to create a new path of their own made it possible. They faced many hurdles on their way, some small, some big, but never quit and the rest is history.

The author of the book is well known writer in India who writes about various aspects related to the young generation and a specialist in the area. Recent release by her is ‘CONNECT THE DOTS’ which is also a collection of real success story of 20 entrepreneurs. But unlike the last book for this book she choose 20 people who were not so educated and still achieved a very high position in the entrepreneurship, about that most of the executives can only dream of. 

The best thing about the book is that it describes success story of 25 people with different social and economic background, that’s why every reader can connect himself with the one or more stories due to resemblance of same social and economical background. Also reader gets  a clear view of those entrepreneurs in a single book, otherwise most of the books available in the market contains stories about a single entrepreneur.

Same time the worst thing about this book is that it only contains stories of IIMA graduates, but the same condition does not apply to the MBAs from other institutes.

Still the book is a must read since it gives a good insight about those of businessman's journey to success. I recommend it to all the student, executives and entrepreneurs who have not read it yet.

        Stay Hungry Stay Foolish (LINK TO THE POST)

http://youthcurry.blogspot.com/  (LINK TO THE BLOG OF RASHMI BANSAL)

From Srilanka with love

Just a few hours ago when India - Srilanka cricket match was about to start, I was very excited about the match. Due to the recent shor sharaba over Randiv's no-ball issue, it was natural to be so keen for a cricket lover. The match was good in starting but turned out in a nightmare for a Indian spectator since India was losing its wickets in every another over.

In the match no Indian batsman could score even a half century and with the highest score of 38 runs by Yuvraj, Indian inning could just kiss the a ton and lost its life at mere 103 runs.

But the twist was that India's such a low score was not because of Indian batsman's poor performance and great bowling by Srilankans, it was more due to bad umpiring. A total of 4 batsman lost their because of wrong decisions made by the umpires. Probably this is the first time in international cricket when so many wrong decision were taken.

Now I will not say that their is something kala in the hot dal, because last time I was wrong when i stated that Randiv's so called no ball was just a mistake, only later I knew that it was his deliberate action that lessen the spirit of the game and made Srilankan board to keep begging for apologies for a couple of days.

But it is sure that the game has changes so much in last decade or so. With many high level controversies right from the match fixing, ball tempering, IPL ke ghaple etc. to saving the test from T20, ICC is facing a tough time in time of the change.

I think in the last decade cricket has evolved in 'laphange pareende' from a Gentleman now. And with the change it should be make sure that no one can spoil it, and these kind of controversies are not good for the game.

'ye sab to chalta rahta hai' and I'm sure BCCI is good enough for tackle these kind of issues, so aam spectators should consider it a gift from srilanka with love.....