Jayaprakash has a mastertape

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Because I was born and brought up in the south, I sometimes feel diffident about my Hindi accent. Then I hear some 2nd or 3rd generation diaspora actor mangle the language in a Canadian or American production

Paradise Lost

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To whom the Angel with
contracted brow.
Accuse not Nature, she hath
done her part;
Do thou but thine; and be not
diffident
Of Wisdom; she deserts thee
not, if thou
Dismiss not her, when most
thou needest her nigh,
By attributing overmuch to
things

VIII, 560-565

Paradise Lost

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Adam, mis-thought of her to
thee so dear?
To whom with healing words
Adam replied.
Daughter of God and Man,
immortal Eve!
For such thou art; from sin
and blame entire:
Not diffident of thee do I
dissuade
Thy absence from my sight, but
to avoid

IX, 289-294