Posts Tagged: Indian

  • Indian spices (Image by Vitamin)

    Spice up your day

    I love Indian food. When I first lived in Sydney in the late 1970s and 1980s we would search out the (quite rare) curry houses and order the hottest thing on the menu—usually a vindaloo. I went to live in London for a a few years and it was like going to heaven because Indian […]

  • There are so many Indian words in our English vocabulary

    Doolally about Indian words

    Doolally is my favourite of all the wonderful Indian words given to the English language. Doolally is common British slang for insane, silly or eccentric. It comes from the days of the Raj when the British Army had a post at Deolali, near Bombay. It was the main staging post for British troops on their way […]

  • Osama bin Laden killed in abad place

    Osama bin Laden finds his ending in abad place

    Osama bin Laden, has been assassinated in his compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan. Abad is a very common ending for cities in the sub-continent.