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What are babus?

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Noun
  1. plural of babu
  2. Deepak Agarwals
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Every marriage pandal would have a bevy of babus doing a headcount of the invitees, the quantity of mutton, rice and sugar used for the preparations.
The college in which we studied was in some ways an incubation chamber for babus.
The babus make beautiful accountants, and if we could only see it, a merciful Providence has made the Babu for figures and detail.
On the other hand, India's civil servants, the babus of empire, were busy itemising every fixture in their offices down to ink pots and paperweights that were to be divided between Pakistan and the new India.
The public is so angry that even honest decisions are sometimes construed as favouring special interests, so babus consider it safest to do nothing.
Netas beyond Congress share the blame for paralysis. Now add unhelpful babus, bureaucrats working in an ossified system bequeathed by Britain.

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