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  • So if they see brown skin, don't be surprised if they turn you down, even if you do flash that U.S. passport – and try to appeal to their sense of justice and "apna desh" (our own country).

    If You're Coming Home Again 2009

  • What is funnier than Sweety charging out of a room screaming 'toh kya main ne tera r*** kiya hai' and Guddu promptly going into the toilet, on which of course is scrawled 'apna haath jagannath'?

    Sab Kaminey hain ...faale erkenbrand 2009

  • What is funnier than Sweety charging out of a room screaming 'toh kya main ne tera r*** kiya hai' and Guddu promptly going into the toilet, on which of course is scrawled 'apna haath jagannath'?

    Archive 2009-08-01 erkenbrand 2009

  • Beans: I chose to use a combination of red kidney beans (apna rajma) and Dominican red beans.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Nupur 2007

  • Musical- It was...nice for a festive breakfast, like apna diwali /new year etc : This was a treat for me as I was home alone yesterday, i made half the recipe for one- hubby doesn't like anything sweet in the morn...and not like I have a sweettooth, but i like a change once in a while!

    Farka - a Tunisian breakfast porridge 2007

  • Na koi apna naam dharaaya | I am not the name I assume

    A beautiful Punjabi Sufi song Chirayu 2005

  • Ei de legeis pephukenai seauton epi toiauten edoden, o boulei phagein proton autos apokteinon, all autos dia seauton, me chesamenos kopidi mede tumpano tini mede pelekei alla, os lukoi kai arktoi kai leontes autoi osa esthiousi phoneuousin, anele degmati boun e stomati sun, e apna e lagoon diarrexon kai phage prospeson eti zontos, os ekeina ...

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Ei de legeis pephukenai seauton epi toiauten edoden, o boulei phagein proton autos apokteinon, all autos dia seauton, me chesamenos kopidi mede tumpano tini mede pelekei alla, os lukoi kai arktoi kai leontes autoi osa esthiousi phoneuousin, anele degmati boun e stomati sun, e apna e lagoon diarrexon kai phage prospeson eti zontos, os ekeina ...

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • Ei de legeis pephukenai seauton epi toiauten edoden, o boulei phagein proton autos apokteinon, all autos dia seauton, me chesamenos kopidi mede tumpano tini mede pelekei alla, os lukoi kai arktoi kai leontes autoi osa esthiousi phoneuousin, anele degmati boun e stomati sun, e apna e lagoon diarrexon kai phage prospeson eti zontos, os ekeina ...

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • I think usne apna roop badal liya hai (it has changed form and shape).

    The Times of India 2010

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