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The term punkah louvre refers to the directional outlet for cool air in aircraft, particularly those over the passenger seats.. In India, the punkhawallah or pankha wallah was the servant who operated the fan, often using a pulley system.
It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in British India and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the final months of the Second World War.
It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British television sitcom, written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.Set in 1945 during the last months of the Second World War, the series follows members of a concert party of the Royal Artillery.
Wallah, -walla, -wala, or -vala (-wali fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi.It forms an adjectival compound from a noun or an agent noun from a verb. [1]
A household electric fan A large cylindrical fan. A fan is a powered machine that creates airflow. A fan consists of rotating vanes or blades, generally made of wood, plastic, or metal, which act on the air.
In 1845, an article in The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist referred to the grammatically incorrect dialect of English spoken by boxwallahs (peddlers) in Calcutta. The article stated: "Every one of these superlative pedlars declares he is 'mem's own boxwallah', and each protests that he 'money not want – mem say her own price'."
Get Some In! is a British television sitcom about National Service life in the Royal Air Force, broadcast between 1975 and 1978 by Thames Television.Scripts were by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, the team behind sitcoms such as The Good Life.