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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | Hindi term or phrase: pani saaj | they are driving from kalimpong down:
"Down they hurtled through the sal trees and the pani saaj, Kiri te Kanawa on the cassette player, her voice soaring from valley level to hover around
the five peaks of Kanchenjunga... In an hour, they had descended into the tropical density of air thick
and hot over the river and into even greater concentrations of butterflies, beetles, dragonflies."
i could find the sal tree, but not pani saaj |
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 Shera Lyn Parpia
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24 mins confidence:   Plumber
Explanation:
Pani Saaj!Kiri te tanava, .. these may be lines of some regional songs.
Pani saaj means plumber.
| PRAKAASH
India
Local time: 07:52
Native speaker of:  Hindi, Nepali
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Asker: hi, prakaash. to me it seems that the "kiri te kanawa..." part can left out as well. so, as far as i've understood the text, we should consider that they are hurtling through the sal trees and the pani saaj... in this case, "plumber" doesn't exactly make sense, but one can perhaps take it as a metaphor for rain or water flowing over the road (because the setting is kalimpong, india - and it's a slightly rainy day with sunshine as well), but i'd rather search for another meaning, instead of taking the metaphor option
so is it possible that pani saaj has another meaning than plumber?
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