The joy of reading novels written in the English language by Indian writers is one of the greatest pleasures in life as is reading the Indian English language press where we always come across words and phrases that are always delightfully phrased.
Today we can across a term we’d never heard before rowdy-sheetersÂ
As many as 14 rowdy-sheeters from the West and South East divisions have been booked under the Arms Act and Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act after the police recovered lethal weapons such as swords, machetes, and daggers from their houses.
The weapons and drugs were discovered during simultaneous raids conducted by the police on the residences of over 200 rowdies and habitual offenders that began on Saturday.
It sent us straight to the dictionary where we learnt what a rowdy sheeter was / is
You have to listen carefully.. they certainly look like rowdy sheeters
