| The babus make beautiful accountants, and if we could only see it, a merciful Providence has made the Babu for figures and detail. |
| But, cried the Oriental in him, babus do not travel far to retail compliments. |
| Netas beyond Congress share the blame for paralysis. Now add unhelpful babus, bureaucrats working in an ossified system bequeathed by Britain. |
| Few others had his tenacity, his drive, his sheer bloody-mindedness, to get government ministers and foot-dragging babus to yield to his ideas. |
| The college in which we studied was in some ways an incubation chamber for babus. |
| 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. |
