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Teodor Halvorsen: This is The Long Vowel. I'm Teodor Halvorsen.

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Odile Marchetti: I'm Odile Marchetti. Our guest runs a monthly repair café in Pune: Kavya Ranade. Kavya, your word.

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Kavya Ranade: Jugaad. It's a Hindi word, but you will hear it all over India. It's a fix you make with what you have, when the proper part, or the proper money, isn't there.

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Teodor Halvorsen: A workaround.

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Kavya Ranade: A workaround with a bit of pride in it. When something is jugaad, it shouldn't work, and it does.

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Odile Marchetti: Give us one.

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Kavya Ranade: The famous one is a vehicle. In villages in the north, people built carts with the small diesel engine of a water pump. That cart is also called a jugaad. A whole vehicle named after the idea.

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Teodor Halvorsen: Does it pass an inspection?

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Kavya Ranade: No, and that is part of the word too. Jugaad is clever, but it is not always correct.

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Odile Marchetti: What comes into your repair café?

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Kavya Ranade: Fans, mixers, phones, a lot of pressure cookers. Last month a grandmother brought a table fan with a broken switch. We had no switch that fit. One of our volunteers used the switch from an old bedside lamp, and a little box from a sweet shop to hold it. It has been running for four weeks.

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Teodor Halvorsen: That's jugaad.

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Kavya Ranade: She called it jugaad before we did. She was very proud.

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Odile Marchetti: Is it always a good word?

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Kavya Ranade: Not always. Jugaad can also mean a shortcut around the rules: knowing somebody who knows somebody. So at the café we try to keep the first meaning. Be clever, be careful, and then fix it properly when the part arrives.

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Teodor Halvorsen: Kavya Ranade, thank you.

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Odile Marchetti: That was jugaad. Coming up, a short bonus with words you sent us.