Re: The Concept of Takkaluf
**partly yes…but it was the custom in our old culture to show our vaz’a qat’a and NOT jump on food as if we had been starved for food…so, he/she would hesitate and upon asking he wud take a little and then upon insistence he would take a little bit more…this cycle of takallufaat would continue for a few times before host would be satisfied that the guest isn’t hungry anymore. lol…weird but interesting though…
there is a famous joke about takalluf: Lucknow, India is notorious for “lakhnauwii takalluf”. there were two nawaabs trying to board a train. they would insist each other to board the train first in order to be respectful of the other…they exchanged takallufaat and in the mean time the train left the station…haha
pahle aap, pahle aap meN gaaRii nikal gayii 
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