I’ve noticed a problem with some of the things I’ve been saying. Fascinatingly, she found that “hop on the phone” began in the 1920s ; “grab a bite” was used to talk about a meal in the middle of a workday by the early 1940s; and “jump/hop in the shower” goes back to the 1970s — ”though we’ve got a …
“A restaurant is like a dramatic and wonderful theatre of human behaviour and personalities,” says writer Chandrahas Choudhury, when he begins to discuss his new novella Days of My China Dragon. Chandrahas has been privy to this theatre ever since he resided in Prabhadevi area of central Mumbai, in the early part of this decade, adjacent to a restaurant called …
