Noggyisms

I caught a couple of shows of the Dewarists (pronounced Do-er-ists) and was hooked on. It brings together musicians from across the country (and outside) and get them to jam together and at the end of each week's episode compose a song. These songs are freely available for download at the official website of the Dewarists.  What actually got me hooked to it was actually at first only the pronunciation of the word rather than the actual program itself. The word, it seems, owes its existence to a certain Sir Thomas Dewar who started his own brand of Scotch called Dewar a century and a half ago. Well, technically his dad started the brand and he publicized it world wide. Nothing great about that except, it happens to be the first brand to use a motion picture to advertise the product, the world's first whisky documentary and it was sent to the US President once and that caused a whole lot of hullabaloo because the President chap accepted a forei...

The best place to observe all these lovely people is at the airport. Most of the 'NRI public' (I love that phrase) would be at their accented best. So you would hear 'Dilli English' with the American twang, you would have American bong and the best the Hindi English. So while the first 2 would be probably on the phone, the last would be to people around especially if it is a couple who know there are people nearby. So you would hear, 'we sood have the baarger. Maine bola tha you should get the stuffs. I was staying for 5 years here so I don't have issue. O God, you are so phunny. Osum it is. ' Next in line are the newly wed wives of the long settled in Amrika lads. I hate to be sexist but I guess the newly wed husbands of the long settled wives did not really stand out or maybe it was just a wrong day at the airport. They would keep looking here and there very scared and hanging on to the husbands' coattails not that the man in question would know a...