The Rise of the Taxi Wallah.

A wallah is defined as,   wal·lah | ˈwälə | noun [in combination or with modifier] Indian or informal a person concerned or involved with a specified thing or business: a rickshaw-wallah. • a native or inhabitant of a specified place: Bombay wallahs. ORIGIN from the Hindi suffix -vālā ‘doer’ (commonly interpreted in the sense ‘fellow’), from Sanskrit pālaka ‘keeper’. Why are British councils licencing thousands of wallahs to drive taxis? Take a taxi in any British town or city and it is most likely that the driver is from Bangladesh or Pakistan and not a native of the Isles […]

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