Maku Macbeth does not always wash her hands
Berjis Desai
The infamous ‘railing’ where the hoipolloi of the Dadar Parsi Colony meet christened her as Maku Macbeth. She was much more though than Shakespeare’s compulsive washer, Lady Macbeth (who felt guilty for killing the King — ‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’). Not only did Maku wash her hands repeatedly, she clipped her nails every morning and changed her underclothes in every gah (staying near an agiary helped, as she could hear the bells resonate to mark the beginning of a gah). Of course, she and her sister Freny never contemplated matrimony; aghast at the......