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Word: chamcha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the English Channel. Two passengers, cartwheeling and conversing, plummet earthward. One is Gibreel Farishta, India's most popular movie star, who is in disguise and fleeing his fame after suffering a life-threatening illness and discovering in the process that there is no God. The other is Saladin Chamcha, a prosperous performer of voice-overs for commercials on British television, returning to his adopted land after a melancholy visit to Bombay and the haunts of his childhood. Miraculously -- preposterously -- they both survive their descent. And then truly strange things begin to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Explosive Reception | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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