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Notes
1. See the online entry for ‘cutting chai’ at Urban Dictionary [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cutting%20chai, accessed 20 Jan. 2017].
2. See the online entry for ‘cutting chai’ at Samosapedia [http://www.samosapedia.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_term=cutting+chai&search=Submit, accessed 20 Jan. 2017].
3. Nimmi Rangaswamy and Nithya Sambasivan, ‘Cutting Chai, Jugaad, and Here Pheri: Towards UbiComp for a Global Community’, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 15, no. 6 (2011), pp. 553–64. To index other kinds of computer strategies used by resource constrained consumers in Indian slums, the authors also use the common term ‘jugaad’ to mean ‘workarounds in the face of resource constraints’ and ‘here pheri’ to mean ‘grey market activity that subverts legal business processes’.
4. Digantika Mitra, Mithila Mehta and Priya Sheth, Cutting Chai and Maska Pao: The Way It Is Said in Mumbai Only (Noida: HarperCollins India, 2012).