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mazdoor(m): laborers

Description of mazdoor: Mazdoor is an Urdu word meaning a laborer or manual worker, particularly someone engaged in hard physical work requiring no specialized skills. The term originates from South Asian languages and is commonly used in India and Pakistan to describe working-class individuals in industrial or agricultural settings. Unlike white-collar professionals or skilled tradespeople, a mazdoor typically performs unskilled labor in factories, mills, or construction sites. Differs from an engineer or manager,

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hone do charaagaan mahlon mein kya ham ko agar diwali hai

mazdoor hain hum mazdoor hain hum

mazdoor ki duniya kaali hai

let the palaces be lit up with lamps

how does it matter to us it is diwali

we are laborers, laborers we are

our world filled with darkness

Jameel Mazhari (1)

charaagaan (m) (1)

lamps

mahlon (m) (1)

plural of mahal (palace)

mazdoor (m) (1)

laborers

kaali (1)

dark, black

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