--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Police Ram Sene?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 12 March, 2009, 6:24 PM
> Now translate..
>
> Khatmal is a bedbug
> Thulla - not sure the way its written in English script,
> but maybe 'drunk'
> Pandu and sakharam are typical 'hayseed' / rustic names
>
> As y'all can probably guess, the average street cop isn’t
> the most popular guy around
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf
> > Of Jai Iyer
> > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:20 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [silk] Police Ram Sene?
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Mahesh Murthy <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > A khatmal in Hyderabad.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Nikhil Mehra
> > <[email protected]>wrote:
> > >
> > >> A thulla in Delhi.
> > >>
> >
> > A 'pyaadhey' in Bangalore, actually.
> >
> > -Jai
> > http://iyermatter.wordpress.com
> >
> > >>
> > >> Nikhil Mehra
> > >> Advocate, Supreme Court of India
> > >> Tel: (+91) 9810776904
> > >> Res: C-I/10 AIIMS Campus
> > >> Ansari Nagar
> > >> New Delhi - 110029.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Bonobashi
> <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > --- On Thu, 12/3/09, ss <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > > From: ss <[email protected]>
> > >> > > Subject: Re: [silk] Police Ram
> Sene?
> > >> > > To: [email protected]
> > >> > > Date: Thursday, 12 March, 2009,
> 5:18 PM
> > >> > >
> > >> > > -----Inline Attachment
> Follows-----
> > >> > >
> > >> > > On Thursday 12 Mar 2009 3:58:11 pm
> > >> > > Vinayak Hegde wrote:
> > >> > > > I always thought the word
> Pandu was used in Mumbai to
> > >> > > refer to
> > >> > > > Policemen. Is this used in
> other cities as well ? I
> > >> > > think the genesis
> > >> > > > of the word Pandu was from the
> satirical/farcical Dada
> > >> > > Kondke [1]
> > >> > > > movies.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > It's only me. I grew up in Pune,
> and just like "cop"
> > >> > > derives from London's
> > >> > > copper - a Pandu is a Pandu
> anywhere, except when he is a
> > >> > > Sakharam.
> > >> > >
> > >> > >
> > >> > > shiv
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Not so fast - in Calcutta, he's a Mama.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > Add more friends to
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Do tell!
Must go and tell my Dad; he had NO IDEA that this was so.
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