What the heck does Radio Wallah mean?

"Wallah" is a Hindi word that is widely used in northern India to mean "the person in charge of some task or work". For example, the man who parks your car would be the "parking wallah", and a man who sells bread is the "bread wallah". A "radio wallah", then, is the dude in some Indian towns who stands around with his transistor radio so that folks can listen to whatever is playing. Equally, the term can refer to a man who operates or services radios.

Radio Wallah as a name for my site is a fabrication of my warped imagination, thus has no proper dictionary meaning. A definition based on the two root words "radio" and "wallah" would simply mean "radio person", or "radio fellow" if you prefer.

From the Oxford English Dictionary

  
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