Words that don't translate

Journey — but also the change a journey works on you.

The root of my whole life, really. Same word in both languages; my grandmother used it for any trip longer than a day.

An ingenious fix with whatever is at hand.

Half of solution architecture is dignified jugaad. I learned it in Pune long before I had a job title for it.

Let's go — encouragement, impatience, and affection at once.

The most useful word in Dubai. Works in traffic, meetings, and at dinner tables in equal measure.

To wander a city with no destination, observing everything.

The only way I see new cities now. The best discoveries in 75 countries came from having nowhere to be.

The time spent at the table after the meal is finished.

Learning Spanish for country №66 — this was the first word that made me certain it was worth it.