fakir

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An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk.

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In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others. José Saramago

[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having settled himself on his first bed of spikes is beginning to wish that he had chosen one of the easier religions. P. G. Wodehouse

Music has a natural place in our lives. Right from the shloka you recite in your morning puja and the milkman who comes whistling on his cycle, to the fakir singing as he begs for alms and your mother humming around the kitchen...Music fills our spaces naturally. It will always be dear to us. Gulzar

Additional attorney generals Murad Reza and Momtaz Uddin Fakir have submitted their resignation letters. Source: Internet

Fakir Syed Aijazuddin is a public intellectual in Pakistan. Source: Internet

Ebrahim Fakir, a researcher at the Johannesburg-based Centre for Policy Studies, and Susan Booysen, political analyst at the University of the Witwatersrand, said that Mbeki botched his legacy due to his cautious approach to Mugabe. Source: Internet

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