At 2010-01-21 11:51:34 +0530, [email protected] wrote: > > The way I heard it, the very cheap truck/vehicle Suresh is referring > to above was actually called a "jugaad" and the generic usage of the > word for any hack of this nature came later.
I know nothing about the etymology of jugaad, but I've just returned from a quick trip to the Chambal river in UP at a village called Bah (no, really). It was full of Jugaads (as in the cheap truck/vehicle) made from water pumps and the like, carrying fodder and wood around. -- ams
