The word ‘bro’ is nearly as good as that other word to describe an idiot..’.bander’ (monkey).

But unlike bander, ‘bro’ can be used almost everywhere and anywhere. Bander on the hand only makes an appearance when the bro is acting stupid.

We do have a word for a woman acting stupid but ‘’Bandaree’ – just doesn’t do itself justice these days.

The best thing about ‘bro’ is the way you can match it with other words. For instance the term... ’kasam bro’ is a classic. As soon as someone uses those two words together you know he is lying his chudhees (underpants) off.

Do you want garlic and chilli with that bro?; How many free minutes have you got bro?; You talking to me bro?; Is this your motor bro?; Do you know where the toilets are bro? Is this free bro? Can you lend me a fiver bro?...the list goes on.

The thing is why do people who use ‘bro’ always ask so many questions?

It is like the word ‘bro’ was invented for the bro’s to ask other bro’s where things are and whether they were free or not?

And then it came to me. The bro’s are actually the prava’s! (brothers). You can say each one of those sentences above and use prava at the end and it wouldn’t make one hell of a difference.

The prava was just the old form of the bro. One just simply morphed into the other.

It happened with such ease most of us didn’t even notice it.

I love bro’s though. They are generally misunderstood.

Whereas some folk look down upon the bros as if they were some sort of underclass – you have to remember the real Asian within us, is and always will be a bro.

You might want to get yourself a nice little house somewhere with a garden and wife who wears £100 shoes, tight jeans and a scarf.

But deep down in there within your soul itching to get out there is a bro. He’s coming out one day…maybe even as a prava?