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Mumbai Diary: Tuesday Tales

The city — sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce

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We Desis are famous for misspelt signboards and nameplates, especially in English. "Child beer” for “chilled” is by now legendary, and you know the language has gone the extra mile when “puncture” becomes “pemchur” an Anglicisation of the Marathi mispronunciation by roadside tyre-fixers.

It’s a prahvate class, dahling. Pic/Uday Devrukhkar
It’s a prahvate class, dahling. Pic/Uday Devrukhkar

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