Punjabi-Parsi tie

Meera Borwankar, the new joint commissioner of police (crime), has finely chiseled features, high cheek bones and a fine straight nose ending in a cute curve.

She is a Punjabi, married to a Maha­rash­trian. That explains everything. Being a Punjabi means she is a half Irani Zoroastrian. When King Cyrus the great left India, he left behind Punjab, which in Persian signifies the land of five rivers.

She will definitely give a fillip to the sagging image of the police in the city.

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