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  • But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs - and the English common soldiers are no better.

    Fiancée 2010

  • They were custom made for him from genuine striped pakka wood by a famous craftsman in another city.

    Pendragon Before the War D. J. MacHale 2009

  • Being a pakka tambram brought up by a strict set of grandparents (who didn't encourage eating on the roadside) these little escapades of eating on the school gates were a sense of wonder and awe for me ...

    Bows to my Alma Mater Anjali 2007

  • They were custom made for him from genuine striped pakka wood by a famous craftsman in another city.

    Pendragon Before the War D. J. MacHale 2009

  • Oh yeah the other day some one asked if i was from UP and someother Maharastra though i am a pakka South Indian Andhrite...

    Kandyache Thallipeeth bhags 2008

  • Oh yeah the other day some one asked if i was from UP and someother Maharastra though i am a pakka South Indian Andhrite...

    Kandyache Thallipeeth bhags 2008

  • Coincidentally, i did a pakka tambram post today absolutely befitting the first round of RCI...hope you like it :

    Tamil cuisine - RCI - April 2007 Lakshmik 2007

  • But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs - and the English common soldiers are no better.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs — and the English common soldiers are no better.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • On the way they passed a large pakka {substantial} house, surrounded by a compound and a low wall.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

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