Be prepared to give a discount for special reasons. Watch your merchandise carefully since light fingers sometimes make salables into disappearables.

At any rate, if it is, Mr. Tupman’s celebrated practice of referring suppliants to his friends for clothes and money was supermagnificent.

Heat some oil in a cast-iron skillet and add the onions.

However, a small band of writers is creating a niche for prose in everyday spoken Hindi and Hinglish, with contemporary themes and characters who are ambitious, bold and tech-savvy.