jugaad

Everyone else only expects things to work, and yet does it the jugaad way cursing everyone else on the way.

These shoulder poles are a perfect example of Jugaad solutions, an innovative fix or work-around.

And its not because of 'jugaad' as quite a few other comments make here.

This is just a Jugaad Shanzhai of Chindogu in the worst possible way.

That said, people have the jugaad-mindset so, you can bet if this goes through people will find ways to circumvent at massive scale.

In India for example, the improvised fix (or Jugaad as it is known in Hindi-Urdu) is not about making do but making things better.

I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of jugaad innovations the Indians can bring to the table in the aerospace sector.

Encouraging the population to integrate that risk taking has been a running them in successful societies from the Romans and Chinese dynasties through American commerce and jugaad.

From what I know, jugaad's meaning crosses the boundaries of ethics freely.

There may be some confusion about jugaad.

I think it is very similar to jugaad and can be thought of has using what you have available to hack something into a working state again (or something new made from different parts).

A boost regulator to convert 30–50V to 52V or whatever the battery charger needs is probably cheaper than a transformer, and already available as an off-the-shelf part, or you can jugaad it with a few extremely common parts.

In Hindi, "jugaad" also means to gather/manage/take care of.

India is not a "karma" society, India is a 'jugaad' society where everyone does just enough to get by.

A lot of what is “working” in the article is closer to “jugaad”/prototyping.

The article mentions "jugaad" as the Indian way of doing things inexpensively.

The fact is this concept called 'frugal engineering' or commonly called in Hindi as 'Jugaad'.