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  • Citizens were asked to greet strangers with "apni", whatever their status – yet surely a ‎ democracy should encourage everyone to greet each other with the egalitarian "tumi" ‎ instead of any of the other forms! ‎

    REGIME CHANGE, LANGUAGE CHANGE 2006

  • The pronoun discriminates carefully between equals, ‎ inferiors and superiors as 'apni', 'tumi' and 'tui' respectively; and so does the ‎ verb!

    REGIME CHANGE, LANGUAGE CHANGE 2006

  • For example, when a mother tells her son, “Tu bada kamina ho gaya hai, saat mahine se milne nahin aaya apni maa se.”

    Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • For example, when a mother tells her son, “Tu bada kamina ho gaya hai, saat mahine se milne nahin aaya apni maa se.”

    Heehs ko mazaa nahin aaya Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • : D. after all apni traditional vastu j apne bhave, barobar ne!

    Revisiting Recipes: Corn Poha with Vidalia Onions Cardamom 2007

  • Babies R Us Coupons: Shikar par jao aur apni pyaas bhujaooo … Yeah I can read URDU … What you think of me?

    Reality Wired 2008

  • Babies R Us Coupons: Shikar par jao aur apni pyaas bhujaooo … Yeah I can read URDU … What you think of me?

    Reality Wired 2008

  • Humko apni aashiqui ka woh zamaana yaad hai posted by Chirayu @ 12:38:00 AM postCount'111886250714351875';

    Nostalgic Sher Chirayu 2005

  • One, a very curvaceous representation of the warrior queen of the city of Jhansi proclaiming ‘mein apni Jhansi nahi doongi’ – “I will not surrender my Jhansi” – was reinvented, at least among those of us who were in high school at the time, as a lament for our unhappy treatment at the hands of girlfriends who refused to unlock their chastity belts.

    Utopia ps 2005

  • One, a very curvaceous representation of the warrior queen of the city of Jhansi proclaiming ‘mein apni Jhansi nahi doongi’ – “I will not surrender my Jhansi” – was reinvented, at least among those of us who were in high school at the time, as a lament for our unhappy treatment at the hands of girlfriends who refused to unlock their chastity belts.

    Archive 2005-01-01 ps 2005

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