| Netas beyond Congress share the blame for paralysis. Now add unhelpful babus, bureaucrats working in an ossified system bequeathed by Britain. |
| 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. |
| Few others had his tenacity, his drive, his sheer bloody-mindedness, to get government ministers and foot-dragging babus to yield to his ideas. |
| But, cried the Oriental in him, babus do not travel far to retail compliments. |
| The college in which we studied was in some ways an incubation chamber for babus. |
| The public is so angry that even honest decisions are sometimes construed as favouring special interests, so babus consider it safest to do nothing. |
