Dear anchita: when I was a boy, the lady who lived in the house next to us showed me a knife she had bought when a missionary in India. It had a massive blade, eith back curved much more than the cutting edge. She told me that the
man she bought it from was able to chop a coin in two, without spoiling the blade. I have forgotten the name of it.
I think it is sometimes call a Gurkha knife. What is the
right word for it?