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- noun A
visual art form fromMaharashtra , India, involvingsinging anddancing .
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Examples
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"I lived in India, and there's an Indian word called tamasha," he said, which translates to "spectacle."
NYT > Global Home By VIKAS BAJAJ 2011
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That is why we have stayed away from the tamasha, which is usually followed by others.
rediff.com 2009
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Crowds of the _élite_ of the neighbourhood were hastening into Islamabad, where the "tamasha," which we came upon at Bejbehara, is to be continued to-morrow.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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"So 'tamasha' sometimes means trouble?" queried Skag, remembering the tamer definition he had learned.
Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905
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Ahmedabad Narendra Modi, popularly called as 'CEO of Gujarat', has attempted an image makeover for being 'pro-poor', by organising 'Garib Kalyan Melas' across the state even as the Opposition dubbed it as a facade and "tamasha".
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Aiyar, while describing the Games as a "tamasha" (drama), had alleged that the way India bagged the Games was nothing less than a bribe.
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Ahmedabad Narendra Modi, popularly called as 'CEO of Gujarat', has attempted an image makeover for being 'pro-poor', by organising 'Garib Kalyan Melas' across the state even as the Opposition dubbed it as a facade and "tamasha".
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Wonderfully talented teenager got lost in the 'tamasha' which accompanied the Indian Premier League.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's recent remark in which he had termed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's railway programmes as 'tamasha' has not gone down well with Left Front partners.
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Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's recent remark in which he had termed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's railway programmes as 'tamasha' has not gone down well with Left Front partners.
WN.com - Articles related to Elephants go on rampage in West Bengal tea estate 2009
mollusque commented on the word tamasha
An entertainment, show, display; a fuss, a commotion.
December 16, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word tamasha
""And such a day of it altogether, with the tamasha this evening" Edge continued."
Concluding by Henry Green, p 11 of the New Directions paperback
May 4, 2018