On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > There's a Tamil variant of this called the "Meen Body Vandi" - i.e. > "fish bed vehicle" because they originated among the fishermen who > needed a quick and dirty transport system for carrying fish. > Oh, the version I heard was that it was called "mini van" which became "meeni-van" and then "meen vaNdi" that got translated to "fish cart"! Deepa.
