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Article: Mind your language: PAKISTANIS LEARN HINDI FROM SOAPS AND FILMS
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- Eastern Eye
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- April 4, 2008
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INDIAN TV serials, populated by bejewelled women and large joint families, are part of everyday life in Pakistan.
And watching them is slowly changing the everyday vocabulary of the country, with words like parivar (family), prarthana (prayer) and parivartan (change) becoming part of the language.
Saba Khalid, a student at Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University, has no hesitation in describing herself as a fan of Indian serials.
"I have even learned Hindi from watching them," Khalid said. Her favourite Hindi word, she said, was purna sanskar, or old conventions.
She is not the only one. A survey of Pakistanis, particularly the young and women in cities, showed that they were familiar with some ...
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