Dear Amita, Please post the Marathi "version" when you come across it. For that matter please consider posting such material more often.
Take care. venantius j pinto > From: "Amita Kanekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There are also some nasty casteist ones. I remember hearing one a long time > ago from a relative, intending to mean you can't expect perfection; there > will always be something bad around. But it likened the bad with > 'Maharvaddo' i.e.the settlement of the Mahars! > Gaanv thayn maharvaddo or some such -- where there is a village, there will > be a maharvaddo... > Had heard something similar in Marathi too. > >