September 20, 2011, Word of the Day
In essence, jugaad is a tribute to native genius, and lateral thinking. It means "can do." It means where there's a will, there's a way.
Jugaad is also a locally-made motor vehicle used in small villages as a means of low cost transportation in rural India. Jugaad literally means an improvised arrangement or work-around, which has to be used because of lack of resources.
It can mean an innovative fix, sometimes pejoratively used for solutions that bend rules, or a resource that can be used as such or a person who can solve a vexatious issue. It is used as much for enterprising street mechanics as for political fixers.
Vikram displayed such Jugaad the other day. He used his comb-in-back-pocket to pick the lock on the his dad's liquor cabinet granting us access to some sakkath Old Monk rum.
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