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  • Ratho Babu is coming! yelled Suhash, jumping up and down.

    BENEATH THE SHADE OF COCONUT TREES • by Rumjhum Biswas 2009

  • I went with a counterpart from my village, whom everyone calls Babu grandfather in Swahili.

    An Alaskan in Tanzania......................And on to Honduras Gail 2006

  • I went with a counterpart from my village, whom everyone calls Babu grandfather in Swahili.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Gail 2006

  • But when I called Babu, associate director to Bharath who directed the Kannada film "Kanti", I was instead offered a role in it.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • But when I called Babu, associate director to Bharath who directed the Kannada film "Kanti", I was instead offered a role in it.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • The Babu was a Brahman; as a Bengali he had no claim on the sympathies of the others; but as a Brahman his person to other Hindus was inviolable.

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

  • The Babu was a native of Bengal, and the Bengalis were physically the weakest of the Indian peoples, constitutionally timid, and unenterprising in matters demanding physical courage.

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

  • 'The Babu is the very hakim (thou hast heard of him?) who was wandering among the hills by Ziglaur.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • However, Wajihul Qamar Murtuza alias Babu, an accused in the 2003 Mulund blast case, will not be able to walk out of the prison yet as another case of grevious hurt is pending against him in Mazgaon court.

    The Times of India 2010

  • Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided the house of Joseph alias Babu and seized a few accessories of country-made guns from a thatched shed attached to his house at Chiramkadavu.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

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