Indian kids eat Indian

Good news for entrepreneurs who own fastfood chains serving local cuisines. When it comes to eating habits, Indian children love Indian food. A recent Cartoon Network survey titled: “Chowder" found that pre-teens preferred Punjabi and South Indian cuisine more than any other.

The survey also revealed that cooking is not perceived as a gender-based activity among youngsters with 68 per cent of the 900 kids surveyed agreeing both boys and girls should learn to cook.

There’s hope for burger and pizza joints, though. Nearly 70 per cent of those polled said they wouldn’t mind experimenting and 57 per cent said they were keen to learn more about world cuisine.

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Upskill

What it means: The Webster Business Dictionary lists it as: to learn additional skills, especially as an alternative to redundancy.

How one uses it: As companies battle the slowdown by laying off staff, quite a few executives have surely had to hear this from their bosses: “During your career, it’s important to ensure you continue to upskill.”

What to use instead: The same message can be passed on in more precise terms by telling someone that she or he should “improve their worth to a company by developing required skills”.