After Slumdog swept the Oscars, everyone is on the SM-mania. A day later, I can hear the NDTV anchor gush “ Well, we still can’t get over the Slumdog win” – and more of the same. Ah, well !

On CNN, reading a similar story, I see Jamaal’s character described as a “teaboy”.

The hero of “Slumdog Millionaire,” a poverty-raised teaboy seeking his lost love, works his way through the questions on the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” knowing that, at any time, he can lose and walk away with nothing.

Quaint – that word “teaboy”. I look it up on the net. Dictionary.com doesn’t have “teaboy” but the urban dictionary does :

1. tea boy
(n.) The newest entrant to a business place, who is forced to do degrading tasks and mainly runs around after everybody else. Also called a charwola.

A “charwola” indeed ! And I wonder how Jagannath became juggernaut.