Let me put it this way: your pancakes are a derivative of our dosa :)

Dosa is made with a rice & urad dal batter. This batter is spread on a heated tava or pan with the help of a large round spoon. Ghee or vegetable oil is generously drizzled along its circumference to prevent it from sticking to the tava. (Oh the heavenly aroma of the dosa sizzling in ghee...mmmmmmm! It had you runnning in from the street where you were playing lagori with your friends, & eating the hot-hot dosa straight off the pan, remember?)

Ideal accompaniments are chutney & sambar! Also tastes awesome with any South Indian chicken or mutton curry.

A Masala Dosa is the plain dosa's slightly more entertaining real brother. It's a (usually) large, crisp dosa painted on the inside with bright red chilly-garlic chutney, stuffed with a spicy potato sabzi & folded over. This is then served in a steel plate with bowls of coconut chutney & sambar.

Finger-lickin' good!

An accident or collision. Commonly used by children in the 1980s.

Cricketing term for a batsman's score of "zero". Usually used without preceding article ("a"). Televised cricket broadcasts will frequently accompany a close-up of the embarrassed face of the batsman in question with a cheesy animation of a duck in full cricket gear waddling about crying at the bottom of the screen.

Silently passing gas without anyone finding out. The person who smells it first is generally blamed for it.

Car trunk

To miss something you're aiming for.

serving

Abbreviation of Kanadigga; refers to the dominant lingual group of Karnataka

The boot of a car

That which holds goods in the back of a car. Also known as a boot or trunk.

A full-bodied, curvaceous woman whose clothes struggle to contain her. The word is rarely used affectionately; it's not invective, but its implications are lewd.

Common man's term for the amazing VCP or a VCR. Most of the common class could only afford to take one on hire during the holidays and watch movies non-stop until your eyes were blood red. The most popular brand of the time was Akai and both the brand and the word "deck" could be used interchangeably. The deck would usually facilitate movies for the neighbours as well, all in your house off course.

Not to be confused by a usual Discotheque, where people usually booze and dance. DisCo stands for "Disciplinary Committee" (and hence DisCo) which is a governing body in most of the Universities and engineering colleges across the country, for taking Disciplinary action against students involved in malicious activities like doping, beating up the guard while drunk, tease girls, ragging juniors, sexual harassement, mob fight, and oh! cheating in exams too (though that was the primary motive at the beginning). However, the primary agenda diminished as we stepped into the 21st century and most of the geek men/women now, who are out of college, brag in their facebook pages that they were once actioned upon by the DisCo, as if it were a matter of pride, and some wish that those DisCo days are back being a bit too nostalgic. DisCo has its own wannabes and its own victims who suffered for a not so noble cause. After all, its a matter of pride!!

To give someone an earful, especially when they have greatly erred or been extremely inconsiderate in their speech or actions.

Discotheque, Club.

Deputy Commissioner in Karnataka, District Collector or Deputy Collector in many other states, as powerful as high voltage Direct Current could be.

DCs are a British raj's legacy, and one of the mosht powerful of all bureaucratic jobs in the world! Really!

They can shake MLAs and most district level big shots in all and any fields business or service. Normally and sensibly so, DCs and Party bosses of the district(both ruling and opposition) are warm to each other. DC has the certain knowledge that today's ruling party neta was yesterday's opposition neta and the cycle goes on. He needs them, and they need him.
So with the town's filthy-wealthy, landlords, miners, business peoples, jurists, judiciary, police(the entire police force of the district is subordinate to him), NGOs, religious leaders( he is the trustee for all HIndu temples of the district). Even journos stand up and bow and show fear and respect and reverence and admiration to a DC like his servants would,when he arrives on the scene.

Besides executive power, DCs have magisterial and semi-judicial powers. They literally control everything that happens in a district.

In simple terms DC is God more or less. Probably more.

The running rate for posting as a DC to a plum or green-pasture district is around 2 to 5 crore rupees. I don't think god even paid just one pink Gandhi note to get that job.

First Glimpse, First look.

A recently coined word, found in style, fashion and film magazines. A mutation of the Hindi word, "dekho", (literally, see or watch),

Used to refer to a visual artwork or event that hasn't been seen before by too many people - an exclusive moment that few people are privy to.

A Gujarati who commits all sins like drinking alcohol and eating meat in the hopes that he will be accepted by his peers.

A word prefixed to polish a traditional item with a modern sheen...Usually associated with objects found in small-town ladice fancy stores so that you may have disco bindis, disco eyetex, disco blouse piece etc.. Advertized as such on a big garish poster outside the store by the most popular local starlet