Citations:toofan

English citations of toofan

"alt form of typhoon"; "storm"; "riot" (some cites may be code-switching or mentions):

• 2001, Meadows Taylor, Tippoo Sultaun: A Tale of the Mysore War, Asian Educational Services, →ISBN, page 6:

  exclaimed one of the camel drivers , ' the Toofans * of the Carnatic are celebrated . ' ' Alas ! ' sighed the cook , and wished himself anywhere but in the Carnatic . At last a low moaning was heard , —a distant sound , as if of rushing […]

• 1979, The Astrological Magazine:

  ... Lucknow an astrologer Srikrishna Murari Misra has predicted that from 21st to 23rd June and from 27th July to 1st August of 1982 the major portion of the world may be destroyed completely due to whirlwind , earthquakes and toofans .

• 2023 January 20, Moyukh Chatterjee, Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities, Duke University Press, →ISBN:

  A toofan (literally storm) referred here to violence between Hindus and Muslims in Madhavpura. As chance would have it, I had been visiting this “riot-prone” neighborhood for over a year to meet with Muslim survivors and witnesses […]

• 2020 March 25, Janki Andharia, Disaster Studies: Exploring Intersectionalities in Disaster Discourse, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 126:

  A riot is often vernacularly referred to as a “toofan” or a storm. When communal violence shook Gujarat in 2002, many said they had not seen such a toofan. Almost ten years later, the then-Chief Minister (CM) Narendra Modi went on a […]

• 2019 January 14, Dixie Jay, Mrs. and Mr. Khan, Dixie Jay, page 128:

  She's much bigger than a toofan, she is a firestorm." He bit his tongue in anguish just realizing what he'd said. Aapi's eyes filled, and Asad's blood ran cold. Anwar covered his face in shame. Dilshad looked at them fearfully. "Zeenat.

• 2015 October 23, Nayanika Mookherjee, The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971, Duke University Press, →ISBN:

  ... she suddenly said, “I was also caught in a toofan [cyclone] and apnar bhai [literally “your brother, referring to her husband, Rafique, in a form of fictive kinship prevalent in South Asia] wasn't even at home during the event.

• 1992, Geeta Dharmarajan, Katha Prize Stories, Katha, →ISBN, page 225:

  They are a veritable storm , a toofan ! I'm also fed up . ' Did she mean what she said ? The words appealed to Mrs Sharangpani . They were so very apt . Out to tear the sky . A toofan . It occurs to her that her children too belong to […]

• 2021 April 6, Sonora Jha, How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 151:

  As I showed their family around the parks and malls of Singapore , Samir dashed about , hiding under park benches , running up escalators , throwing himself like a toofan , a hurricane , into the swimming pool of our condo .

• 2005, Sandip Das, Jayaprakash Narayan: A Centenary Volume, Mittal Publications, →ISBN, page 52:

  The first step was successful and people talked about a toofan of gramdans . In block after block , people signed papers saying that they would give up a share of their land . But when we went back to them to get the land they began to […]

• 2017 December 14, Morten Nielsen, Nigel Rapport, The Composition of Anthropology: How Anthropological Texts Are Written, Routledge, →ISBN:

  As Mookherjee describes it, she suddenly said: “I was caught in a toofan (cyclone) and apnar bhai ... (referring to her husband) ... wasn't even at home during the event” (2015:110). Mookherjee glosses this reference to the storm as a […]