I'll try to use the following in everyday speech. It's a most useful word:

"Timepass - a trivial activity that passes the time."

Timepass?

Me, I like timesink. Beautifully adapted from the term of art heatsink.

The authors mentioned by Anjali Puri are only read by people who frown down upon Hinglish in all it's forms. English is very important for economic success in India. There are people who speak to their children only in English, irrespective of the fact that they themselves are not very comfortable with the language. In their conversations and in the conversations of their children, it is inevitable that a lot of the local lingo slips in. This is what Hinglish is all about.

LanguageHat what do you think of this?

http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/19/the-abolition-of-linguistic-ghettos.html

"Telegraph' is not such a strange name for a twentieth century newspaper once you realise that the nineteenth century century telegraph used morse with twentyfirst century digital signals.
Helps us remember with humility that so many of our present day technologies were discovered a long time ago.