French newspaper Le Monde explains the term Jugaad

Wed, 24 September 2014

15:38

France's Le Monde uses the Indianism 'Jugaad' to explain how India managed the cheapest Mars mission ever for just Rs 450 crore.

"La mission indienne a en effet t conue selon le principe du jugaad , un principe typiquement indien que l'on pourrait rapprocher du systme D et qui consiste trouver la solution la moins onreuse possible."

If you understand French, read this.

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