Tasteless, hard-as-rock, dried mini bread pieces served as a snack in Southie homes. Rusk becomes edible only when dipped in Garam Chai, which is the preferred dipping beverage for eating rusk. Certain hard varieties are a reasonable substitute for sandpaper. Rusk can be hurled as an effective weapon when fighting with your brother.
Usually served as a snack to unannounced guests.

Konkani way of telling a very impatient soul to hang on and sabr karo.

Every female dog in India is called Rosie.

Kingdom, Empire.

While the word itself might mean any particular ruling entity in India, "Raj" by itself has come to be synonymous with the period of occupation by the British over the South Asian subcontinent. While the occupation extended decisively from 1857 to 1947, various parts of the region were under British rule even earlier in the 19th century.

Performed better. Usually in exams.

You would say it just like rasam with no 'm' sound, and not draw the 'a's out like raasum.

The Sanskrit-rooted word literally means juice, nectar, shade of vital ingredient of a thing or a thought or an act. See also the entry for Rasna that no doubt plays on this meaning.

Samosapediacs will bash me up for the little literal trip. So here is the parody -- the more vulgar nuance. Seriously.

Rasa is also slang for sperm. The poli Kannadigan boys compare in talking among themselves of the quantity of the stuff they brought out in their self-reliant, single handed(!), manly, stationary-expeditions.

Auto-rickshaw - a three-wheeler, typically available for public transport in Indian cities.

Reserved Against Cancellation.

When you intend to make a booking for a long-distance train or bus journey, tickets are available in 3 flavors - Confirmed, RAC or Waitlisted.

RAC is halfway between confirmed and waitlisted. RAC is your friend, RAC is good for you. You have a seat, but no sleeping berth. You are on your way to visit your engle in your beloved naadu.

In romance, though, RAC is your foe. It is that which allows a pretty lass to take over your entire existence in the hope that one day she will be yours. But alas, it is not to be. She has reserved you, but will not confirm you. She has twisted you around her little finger, but her heart pines for someone else. But poor fellow, you don't know that, no?

RAC is a state of unrequited love. It is but a state of mind.

The Indian word for hazing or putting students of a lower class trough initiation rites which often turns to bullying and violence.

Awesome fun.

It means rose in Tamil, and is also the name of a famous Mani Ratnam movie eventually dubbed into Hindi.

Official Hindi name for Russia.
And Rusy is the adjective for things Russian as in the famous Mukesh song "mera joota hai Japani.... Sar pe laal topi Rusy...

Extreme superlative, nothing rocks beyond rocking.

"do not trouble yourself"

Originally term for cycle rickshaw - which is a 3 wheeled cycle ridden by the driver and sitting at the back were two, three or sometimes more passengers (often overweight people or sometimes large groups of kids going to school).

Except in some rural areas, rickshaws have almost disappeared but may make a future comeback as it is non polluting and non gas guzzling.

1. King
2. To "do a raja" means to accomplish a spectacular con or bit of thievery. This comes from DMK Telecom Minister A Raja and his role in the 2G Spectrum allocation scam. Raja is currently housed in an Indian prison.

Convoluted version of the word 'rocks'.
Signifies over enthusiasm or over patronage of a person,place,event,substance or blah-blah

Short for 'radio jockey'. Since a DJ jockeys discs and a VJ jockeys videos, etymologically, an RJ should plug and unplug different radios to play numbers. But in fact, an RJ is (depending on your mood) either a DJ who talks too much, or a talk radio host who plays too much music.

A function held the day before a Mangalorean Catholic wedding where the groom or bride is blessed by their family

Raaju = can be used as a generic name if you don’t know the name of the child in a restaurant or in a mechanic shop.

Short for autorickshaw and generally considered more fashionable than the more common "auto".

A corruption of "right", used by conductors and "cleaners" to signal to bus and lorry drivers that their vehicle has clear access, usually while reversing. Also shouted by bus conductors to tell the driver to start moving again at a bus stop.

The Samosapedia Team hopes all of you spent a lovely Raksha Bandhan.

The sacred thread used during the Raksha Bandan festival. Traditionally, sisters tie rakhi to their brothers' wrists, but the practice is often used by girls to issue a KLPD to would-be suitors.

A rite of passage at every boy's school and college in India. The new batch of students get "ragged" and fingered and sometimes kolted by their seniors. Akin to hazing at fraternities.

Sometimes the ragging can be harmless and benign (like making someone measure the size of a football field with a reynolds pen). But at times ragging can be particularly gruesome like making men stand in a line nanga by a train station etc.

For some it is natural form of assimilation. For others (puskee fellows) it can cause permanent damage to the psyche.

Hazing; making someone do something bordering on ridiculous (and sometimes traumatic) to establish a pecking order.