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tamasha

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tamasha [təˈmɑːʃə]
n
(in India) a show; entertainment
[via Urdu from Arabic: a stroll, saunter]


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It's no easy task: Her tamasha kid sister is a telephone sex operator who won't call her didi like in Laga Chunari Mein Daag; her mother isn't quite like Simran's mother in DDLJ and could probably have done a better job playing Linda Hamilton in Terminator II, and her father is a closet Hershey's' eater, who is a curious mix of Homer Simpson and OJ Simpson.
If the Islamic brotherhood wants to understand why so many Muslims nations are in such a mess, they only need to examine how their elite have upended the holiest month of the faith, one in which they are meant to turn to Allah and practise the highest values of the Quran -- piety, charity, self-denial, sacrifice -- and turned it into a month-long tamasha.
Pilgrims attend the Kumbh to see and experience both religious and secular aspects (cumulatively known as tamasha or spectacle) of the event.
 
 
 
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