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Originally Posted by Tom Alexander

Wallah is an Indian term for servant, or worker. We recently had three wallahs aboard, the dobhi wallah (does the ship's laundry), the Chai wallah (brings the tea around, and the Punka wallah (waves the palm leaves to ventilate cabins, etc.

On the subject of punkas, you have several in your cabin -- called punka louvres -- the round eyeball thingies that supply vented air conditioning to your quarters. (Tmac takes pride in supplying the appropriate quantity, temperature and quality of the air through these devices which can be manually rotated to change the flow of air to the required spots.)

Oh! That Wallah. Thank you for the info re air conditioning to my quarters. I'm sure that if I did have any issues Tmac would be able to sort me out.