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  • Who can forget Mere paas na apane baap-dada ki daulat ki nahi ek pai hai aur nahi mujhe chahiye, mere paas agar kuch hain to apane maa ka diya hua aashirwaad, or Main panch lakh ka sauda karne aaya hoon aur mere jeb mein panch photi kaudi bhi nahi hai or Aaj aapke paas aapki sari daulat sahi, lekin aap se bada gareeb maine zindagi mein nahin dekha and many more.

    Trishul 2007

  • All the political talk was: gareeb ke liye ham kya kar sakte hain.

    ‘I was always Leftist. Economic reforms made me completely Marxist’ Abhay N 2007

  • "Indeed, he is a _gareeb kuch kam ki nahin_," said the _sais_, meaning thereby a miserable beast, in the most intensified form, "and not fit to stand in the sahib's stable."

    All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903

  • Gareeb se gareeb ho ya pagal se pagal, koi apna bachcha nahin bechta.

    The Times of India 2009

  • Shayad woh kuch din pehle tak apne mohalle ke gareeb logon ke madad karti ho, shayad uske bachche, uska pati sab hi maar diye gaye hoon 2002 ke jansanhar main.

    Communalism Watch 2009

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