In the early 50s in Bombay, which was the center of the universe for this kid growing up, the double deckers, chaotic traffic, pista bars for 2 annals, and Regal theatre in Colaba, a shout of "body run over" was just too frequent, an indication that perhaps a person getting off a double decker while it was in motion was struck by a vehicle just getting into a seeming empty slot. People would mill, no ambulances those days, the injured person somehow shelled by relatives,friends strangers to a hospital or to some peaceful place.

The shout "Body Run over" was enough for this kid to drop whatever activity was in place to run to the scene of the accident.

Irony forms the underpinnings of many Indian languages. Here, literally, " what does a monkey know about the fragrance of ginger?" is at once funny-- monkeys often appear in the laguage in a disparaging, funny, or exalted reference-- but the context of "fragrance" and "ginger" is also quaint. So the meaning is similar to "you cannot make silk purse with sow's ears" - but not the same-- since it does not contain the dripping irony of the former.

This is a scatalogical tour-de-force cogently captured in 7 words. Starts with your mother and her you-know-what and an elephant's dick and what you did to your sister. Is there something more graphic in any language?

The plaintive cry emanating from a railway platform - Bezwada- comes to mind- signalling to the tired and slightly sooty passenger that the coal-powered steam has crossed vast distances for this undeserved pleasure of drinking coffee from matka cups. Lattes were not invented then.

cheat sheet in the 1960s. In a closed book exam little paper planes with the answers cryptically written can be seen flying around when the proctor is not looking... Paper planes...Dakota was a common transport plane then..

Break up into parts.
To the generation of the Midnight Children aka born around Partition, fissiparous tendencies was a convenient crutch to explain subversive actions. The perpetrators then were in order: the US,the CIA, the West, and Pakistan. Today Pakistan is the only entity in this rarefied crowd. Throw in China when the phrase is seriously used.

Even the first syllable sounds like something falling apart...