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Greg Chappell's middle finger
...and how we wish some others
followed his example
BY TOMS MATHEW
28th November, 2005
Greg Chappel's middle finger to Sourav
Ganguly's cricket fans in Kolkata at
Eden Gardens has triggered a storm. Is
showing the middle finger (see
illustration) part of our Indian
culture? Or is it part of a wave of
westernisation threatening to sweep
India? I don't know, since I slept
through my history classes. However, I
can think of some instances where the
protagonist could make creative use of
his/her middle finger to get the point
across. Here is the Top Ten:
 1. South Africa's
middle finger: To India, on
winning the Eden ODI with India
hands down.
2. Ganguly's middle finger: To
cricket fans, when Greg Chappell said
the issue with Ganguly was sorted out.
3. Khushboo's middle finger: to
activists, when they attempted to
force her to retract her premarital-sex
statement.
4. Narayan Rane's middle finger:
to Bal Thackeray, when he was
sacked from Shiv Sena.
5. Raj Thackeray's middle finger:
To Sena, following years of being
sidelined.
6. Nitish Kumar's middle finger:
to UPA government after his
triumphant ascent to power.
7. George Bush's middle finger:
To human rights activists who bang
their heads for justice to prisoners
at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and CIA
secret jails.
8. ISI's middle finger: to
Indian and international law, on
covertly shielding Dawood Ibrahim.
9. Salman Khan's middle finger:
to media, after the so-called Salman
tapes were proved fake.
10. Paul Volcker's middle finger:
To Natwar Singh and Congress, over
the threat to issue legal notice to
UN.
BY TOMS MATHEW
(It is not our case that many of
the above would ever think of using
their middle finger to such use. But
we guess it would effectively put the
point across - Editor.)
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