Ishtandard phrase used when someone makes a preposterous proposition and expects time to change your obvious refusal.

Meaning : Think about it in a calm manner for a while, and let me know.

PS: It rarely works.

If you don't know about Butter Chicken, you probably haven't heard of India either. (what are you menn, from Mars or what? EVERYONE knows butter chicken!)

Oh ji, it is only the favouritest and most popular Punjabi dish in the subcontinent. Claimed to have been invented only a few decades ago at the famous Moti Mahal restaurant in Delhi. Loved more than life itself by some Punjus, who must never ever be disturbed while they are devouring it. Think I'm kidding? Just try taking a piece of it from a surdie's plate sometime. He (or even more scary, she) will turn you into human masala fry faster than you can say tikka. Then don't come back as one bhooth and haunt me saying things like I didn't tell you so, ok?

BC, as Butter Chicken is sometimes called, is a heart stopping concoction of vast amounts of butter, ghee, fresh cream and some tomato purée with spices. Bung in some tandoori chicken and just to ensure complete coronary catastrophe, throw on another packet of butter on top. And voila, you have the most calorific chicken curry in all India. But it's so darn good, that once you taste it, you'll be hooked for life.

Just to make sure there's enough butter in your system till the apocalypse, eat it all up with some more butter naan.

And don't forget to growl at anyone who wants a bite from your plate.

Shut up!!! Right now! Or else!

An obvious amalgamation of the phrases - "Just shut up!" and "Shut your mouth". (Somehow mouth became plural and all.)

Read What for you?. Then multiply the implied irritation, indignation and annoyance on part of the speaker by one few times.

That only is feeling with which you should associate this phrase, wokay? Full anger and all should come off properly for you. (Flaring nostrils and bulging eyes are highly recommended). Prefixing of the word 'then' in front of the original phrase minns it is full serious serious.

Don't use if you're feeling like one puski.

Not to be confused with then what?.

If you're having visions of a balding portly man (or a balding portly woman) standing and turning on the spot like a spinning top, then by God, you certainly didn't go to school in India.

This phrase was every teacher's way of informing rowdy students that the principal was making the rounds of the institution on the sly, hoping to catch some wayward kid doing all nonsense things in class. The sadistic princi would prowl the halls like a panther hunting prey, with the aim of making an example of some unlucky student in front of the whole school. Of course every teacher was petrified of being singled out as being ineffective in controlling her students, and so would inform her class of the princi's sneaky intentions even though she was not supposed to.

The effect of said communication, though highly amusing, would be electric, invoking instant good student behaviour from yeach and yevery student. Even from the established porkis.

An important day on the Indian calendar, Makar Sankranti (also known as Makar Sankrant) signifies the start of the harvest season in India, though it is celebrated in many ways all over the country. This day marks the gradual increase of daytime after winter, and is therefore considered to be the start of a new auspicious period. In Punjab, the eve of Makar Sankranti is celebrated as Lohri.

This harvest festival goes by many names in different parts of the subcontinent, and in each region it is celebrated with distinct rituals and traditions. (See Wikipedia for details of customs followed in various states on this day) The most famous image of Makar Sankranti has come to be the thousands of colourful kites that are flown by Gujaratis all over Gujarat to mark the occassion.

Etymology : 'Makar' refers to the zodiac sign of Capricorn. Thus, Makar Sankranti denotes the changing path of the sun into the house of Capricorn.

A much loved Punjabi winter festival that is celebrated on January 13th, with the lighting of a big bonfire after sunset.

Friends and family gather around after dusk and watch as the fire is lit (after pouring copious amounts of ghee on the wood to be burnt), and then proceed to alternatively snack on and throw in food items such as Til waali rewri (jaggery with sesame seeds), peanuts, and more recently, popcorn. The idea is to feed yourself and to feed the fire as well, dispelling the deep winter chill. In recent years the tradition has become popular outside of Punjab as well and entire neighbourhoods in cities like New Delhi organise giant bonfires on this day. Singing and dancing the bhangda and the giddha form an intrinsic part of the day's celebrations for the farming community of Punjab, who consider this an auspicious day.

It is believed that the night of Lohri is the longest night in the entire year, and the next day the amount of daylight starts to increase for the first time after the cold, unforgiving North Indian winter - heralding the distant arrival of spring in the coming months. Therefore Lohri signifies the end of the darkest part of the year and the coming of warmer seasons. This is why, on the day after Lohri (which coincides with the festival of Makar Sankrant), a special kara prasad is prepared in Punjabi households.

It minns Audio-video room. Basically a room with a tv used for showing some sort of educational stuff to school kids.

All 'good' schools with proper proper facilities and all always had a nice AV room (sometimes with A/C), where students would be subjected to all sorts of documentaries, filmed plays(mostly related to course material somehow) and the like. You know, for rounded development of children or helping them understand some coursework or some such faff. I forget why now, but something like that only.

Today's kids (having all fancy hi-def tv in their own rooms at home, spoilt brats!) will understandably not get excited by the AV room, but back in the days when every household had one khataara tv which kids were hardly allowed to watch, the prospect of going to the AV room generated tremendous excitement. All we could think back then was "TV!! In School??!!! YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!". Picture the entire class jumping like psycho monkeys with happiness and you get a picture of the sudden joy.

(P.S. If you happened to be ill and missed school on AV room day, aiyo! Full sadness only would happen off ya)

Stands for "Co-Curricular Activities" (also known as Extra curricular activities). Similar to "SUPW" in it's potential for goofing off, but not exactly the same thing.

CCA periods involved stuff like putting up a class play, trips to the AV room to watch a documentary, practicing for the inter-house debating competition etc. Minns it was a little more serious than SUPW, and teachers wouldn't tolerate too much khurafati. But it was still fun, simply because it meant that for one hour in the school week, you didn't have to study chemistry/history/civics/whatever else bored you to tears.

Once in a while, when the teacher felt too lazy to plan anything for the class, it turned into a free period, which led to many rounds of name place animal thing.

Big fancy word for engster fun. Used mostly by older folks, who somehow don't like the total informality of the word masti.