--- 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
>
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> 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.
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