| In the language of north India it would have been called a tamasha, and it was certainly quite a performance. |
| India is rather unique in the amount of tamasha surrounding the government's budgetary announcements. |
| Their reaction to the quake was to try and encash on it by organising a tamasha in the city. |
| Even as the camera recorded this blatant act of arson, on the parapet sat a group of women, one of them nonchalantly dangling her legs, watching the tamasha. |
| And Indian spectators have converted this very polite, mannered Victorian game into an Indian tamasha. |
| We had fine clothes, and feasting, and drum-beating, and fireworks let off in our village. It was a grand tamasha! |
