I remember the word fingering being quite liberally in the mid 70s into the 80s. Don't finger, stop fingering you,,,, etc. Till I saw the word become flesh in the new millennium--my old and trusted friend's "tall man" finger darting up a waitresses skirt at a dingy bar in Mumbai's Eastern Suburbs. (Marathi:ungli marne; Konkani: bott marop) For all her awareness, she did not know where it came from, whose hand it belonged to; but she knew where it was headed--the now retracted finger. It happened in a blur, before we had taken our table, and there was some back and forth with people momentarily packed in the narrow space between the tables. I simply asked my pal what it was all about. Arre, let it be yaar: was all he said. It must have been some spirit. We moved on to our beers--Khajuraho, if I remember.
I moved away, and there is much distance between us, will always be--although we recently shared hi's. This brings us to the high-level fingering below: Rings a Bell *ACTIVIST TEESTA SETALVAD HAS USED PHONE RECORDS TO NAIL SEVERAL OF MODI’S HENCHMEN IN THE COMMITTEE PROBING THE GUJARAT MASSACRES, REPORTS** AJIT SAHI *(excerpt) The officers that Setalvad has fingered include Gujarat’s then Director-General of Police (DGP), K Chakravarti, and PC Pande, then Ahmedabad Police Commissioner who Modi later promoted as DGP. Pande had held the post of Police Commissioner in Ahmedabad at the time of the massacre, and is widely accused of willfully allowing the killings to go unchecked. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main45.asp?filename=Ne120610rings_a.asp This also brings to mind: Bott dilear hath gillta. ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto
