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Fanta-roti

फैंटा रोटी

Meaning

A soft round bread, another name for a thick leavened flatbread.

See it in the verse

Fanta-roti in Iqbal’s couplets

Hazaron saal nargis apni be-noori pe roti hai
Badi mushkil se hota hai chaman mein deedavar paida

For thousands of years the narcissus weeps over its own sightlessness — only with great difficulty is a truly seeing one born in the garden.

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