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In India, the punkhawallah or pankha wallah was the servant who operated the fan, often using a pulley system. [2] French Indochina courtroom equipped with punkah fans.
Pukka sahib (/ ˈ p ʌ k ə ˈ s ɑː (ɪ) b / PUK-ə SAH(-i)b) [1] is a slang term taken from the Hindi words for "substantial" (literally "ripe") and "master". Among English users, "pukka" came to signify "first class" or "absolutely genuine", so that the combined phrase can be translated as "true gentleman" or "excellent fellow".
Jami is the Gigolo King of Kalkatta. Smuggled into India from Bangladesh and given refuge by his uncle, a leader of the ruling Communist Party, he grows up in Zakaria Street—a Little Baghdad of the old—dreaming of becoming a pukka Kalkatta-wallah. When friendship with a local gang disqualifies him from school, he ends up as assistant to a ...
Pukka, an adulatory slang adjective, may refer to: Arts. Pukka Orchestra, a Canadian new wave band in the 1980s; Pukka or pucca, a category of Indian vernacular ...
Punka Wallah Rumzan [2] 43 episodes 1977 Crown Court: The other Patel Episode: "The Family Business: Part 1" 1977 The Other One: Ali (as Babar Bhatti) Episode: #1.7 1978 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em: Mr. Singh (as Babar Bhatti) Episode: "Moving House" 1978 Empire Road: Dilip Chopra Episode: "The Big Day" 1979 Shelley: Mr. Patel (as Babar Bhatti)
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Wallah, -walla, -wala, or -vala (-wali fem.), is a suffix used in a number of Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi/Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali or Marathi. It forms an adjectival compound from a noun or an agent noun from a verb. [ 1 ]