Both Uses of
relevant
in
The God of Small Things
- At first he had wanted to call it Zeus Pickles & Preserves, but that idea was vetoed because everybody said that Zeus was too obscure and had no local relevance, whereas Paradise did.
Chpt 2 *relevance = importance (meaningful relation to the issue in question)
- Comrade Pillai's suggestion—Parashuram Pickles—was vetoed for the opposite reason: too much local relevance.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(relevant) relating in a meaningful way to the issue in question