An adda (Bengali: আড্ডা) is a 'conversation' among members, who were originally of the same socio-economic strata, but the process has democratized in modern times.[1]
Adda was incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2004.
The South Asian adda has shades of meaning attached to different languages:
In 2011, filmmakers Surjo Deb and Ranjan Palit made a documentary on the subject.[3] The film, Adda: Calcutta, Kolkata has been screened at several festivals around the globe and won the Golden Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival 2012.[4][5][6]
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