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convenio n. “Convenio” the convenience store, a mini supermarket, is one of the added facilities now in many locations in Madras. [ ] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2005)
convenio n. Apart from paying for fuel and lubricants, the card can also be used to buy a whole range of products at various Convenio stores located at select IOC petrol stations. [ ] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2005)
convenio n. I have not yet been able to figure out the role that these convenios play in our Indian scenario. Sure, out West they’re an established retail format, their raison d’etre being convenience of shopping (while you fill fuel), you buy your tobacco/ soft drink/ beer …or if you’ve run out of eggs, you just drive down to your closest convenience store, and pick them up—no wandering through massive aisles of merchandise, no standing in long lines—sure, you pay a little extra, but then it’s convenient. [ ] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2005)
cooking accident n. “Cooking accident” has long been a euphemism for dowry killing in India. [ ] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2007)
cope up v. So the desiway of saying “cope with’ is “cope up with,” something that phorenstudents now take as a given. [ ] [full cite] (Jun. 3, 2004)
cover journalism n. Here in India, in our jargon its called “cover journalism”—the type of journalism where you accept cash (or freebies) for stories. So, journalists could be slipped an envelope or “cover’ containing cash and he/she will take care of the rest. There are lots of journalists who are very accepting of this sort of thing. [ ] [full cite] (Jun. 6, 2006)
cow dust hour n. The “cow dust” hour of evening—how I love that phrase—when the call comes for home and family, and the sky is filled with the green, gold, crimson of the screaming, homing parrots. [ ] [full cite] (May. 12, 2006)
cow dust time n. It was late afternoon, “cow dust time,” when the cattle being driven home to the villages stir up eddies of dust along the roads. [ ] [full cite] (May. 12, 2006)
cow-dust hour n. Twilight is a special threshold moment in most shamanic traditions. This is the cow-dust hour, the window of opportunity at which to invoke the mystery of solar transformation through the Gayatri Mantra. Neither midnight-black nor blazing white, this is just the sort of “neither/nor’ state from which a fearful child might expect a man-cat to emerge, as it did from a pillar, in the Puranas. [ ] [full cite] (May. 12, 2006)
cow-dust hour n.

She in her cotton skirt,/bare feet in sandals/and with him/in jeans and sleeveless vest,
they might be a Brahmin couple/wed ritually at the cow-dust hour,/sashed together with a silken scarf.

[ ] [full cite] (May. 12, 2006)
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