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Indira's "chamcha" must realise it was just a cruel play of destiny which has made Rahul Gandhi the "Prince of Wales of India", a place which should have rightly belonged to Varun if his father had not met a tragic end.

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One newspaper baron and government chamcha -- apple polisher in Urdu -- became the laughing stock of the country’s new media when he went on television to suggest that revelations about how Pakistan’s government had lied to its people, subverted its national sovereignty, and coordinated foreign attacks didn’t faintly measure up to those about leaders in other countries.

Fatima Bhutto: A Flood of Drone Strikes: What the Wikileaks Revelations Tell Us About How Washington Runs Pakistan Fatima Bhutto 2010

One newspaper baron and government chamcha -- apple polisher in Urdu -- became the laughing stock of the country’s new media when he went on television to suggest that revelations about how Pakistan’s government had lied to its people, subverted its national sovereignty, and coordinated foreign attacks didn’t faintly measure up to those about leaders in other countries.

Fatima Bhutto: A Flood of Drone Strikes: What the Wikileaks Revelations Tell Us About How Washington Runs Pakistan Fatima Bhutto 2010

One newspaper baron and government chamcha -- apple polisher in Urdu -- became the laughing stock of the country’s new media when he went on television to suggest that revelations about how Pakistan’s government had lied to its people, subverted its national sovereignty, and coordinated foreign attacks didn’t faintly measure up to those about leaders in other countries.

Fatima Bhutto: A Flood of Drone Strikes: What the Wikileaks Revelations Tell Us About How Washington Runs Pakistan Fatima Bhutto 2010

One newspaper baron and government chamcha -- apple polisher in Urdu -- became the laughing stock of the country’s new media when he went on television to suggest that revelations about how Pakistan’s government had lied to its people, subverted its national sovereignty, and coordinated foreign attacks didn’t faintly measure up to those about leaders in other countries.

Fatima Bhutto: A Flood of Drone Strikes: What the Wikileaks Revelations Tell Us About How Washington Runs Pakistan Fatima Bhutto 2010

One newspaper baron and government chamcha -- apple polisher in Urdu -- became the laughing stock of the country’s new media when he went on television to suggest that revelations about how Pakistan’s government had lied to its people, subverted its national sovereignty, and coordinated foreign attacks didn’t faintly measure up to those about leaders in other countries.

Fatima Bhutto: A Flood of Drone Strikes: What the Wikileaks Revelations Tell Us About How Washington Runs Pakistan Fatima Bhutto 2010

The wife of an Indian government official (Saleem's uncle Mustapha Aziz), who has been passed over forty-seven times for the headship of his department, is driven insane "by a life in which she has been required to begin 'being a chamcha' (literally a spoon, but idiomatically a flatterer) to forty-seven separate and successive wives of number-ones whom she had previously alienated by her manner of colossal condescension when they had been wives of number-threes…."

On the Indian World-Mountain Towers, Robert 1981

So if you are an English chamcha these days, let it be.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Late Kanshiram summarized his assessment of this policy in his pamphlet, 'chamcha yug' (the era of stooges).

Countercurrents.org 2010

Pack your bag and go to your hometown - Swat valley - you belong there. congress chamcha by vasant on 2009-02-18

Screen News 2009