9/10/2016: FRONT PAGE: Ahead of Eid, fear of ‘biryani police’ makes ‘gosht’ a forbidden word

Posted on 10 September 2016. Tags: ‘biryani, ‘gosht’, 9/10/2016, ahead, fear, forbidden, Front, makes, PAGE, police, word

Gurgaon: “Try your luck somewhere else. No one sells it here anymore,” says Zaid, a nine-year-old biryani-seller in Mewat, when asked if he had “gosht biryani”. Though ‘gosht’ means any red meat, it has become a proscribed term in Mewat district after…
The Times of India (New Delhi edition)