CCP, which was short for chhi-chhipoach and in Hindi meant shit-wiper. Chacko said that the correct word for people like Pappachi was Anglophile. He made Rahel and Estha look up Anglophile in the Readers Digest Great Encyclopaedic Dictionary. It said: Person well disposed to the English. Then Estha and Rahel had to look up dispose. It said: (1) Place suitably in particular order. (2) Bring mind into certain state. (3) Do what one will with, get off ones hands, stow away, demolish, finish, settle, consume (food), kill, sell. Chacko said that in Pappachi’s case it meant (2) Bring mind into
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