Re: Re: [nukkad] PM's address to NRIs

["Mahesh chandra gupta" <>]

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 Harshal Chhaya wrote :

1. Doesn't 'pravasi' usually mean traveller? So why is the govt.
calling NRIs 'pravasis'?
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In hindi, vas means residence and pravas would be a special type 
of residence; in this case, residence outside the country/area 
concerned. Pravas does not mean traveller, but might loosely 
convey that sense since one cannot get away to another place 
without travelling their. Sometimes similar words convey different 
meanings in hindi, gijarati, marathi, bangla etc.

parivrajak is a hindi word that connotes traveller.

MC Gupta


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