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Democracy desi ishtyle

By Santosh at 27 April, 2009, 4:51 pm Print This Post Print This Post Email This Post Email This Post

Thanks to a new ruling by The Election Commission of India, voting officials in certain polling stations are now marking middle fingers with the purple ink, instead of index fingers as in days of yore, making for some hilarious photo-ops. [TOI]

Middle Finger IndiaAmit Varma of India Uncut sees the gesture in the following picture as a huge “FU” from Indian politicians towards the electorate. In the meanwhile, famous American blog Boing Boing sees it as a huge “FU” from the Indian electorate directed to no one in particular. Reminds me of a Russell Peters routine where he describes how the Italian WTF gesture is the same as the Indian “Did you eat?” gesture. Cultural differences, I tell you.

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Karthik April 27, 2009

This totally blows. Now when I give the finger to someone in India, they are just going to think that I Voted. Boo!

justme April 28, 2009

This naturally brings up the question – what is the Indian FU gesture?

Karthik April 28, 2009

I don’t think we have one. Do we?

Raj April 30, 2009

What can one do if bollywood’s first family too says FU ?

http://ibnlive.in.com/photogal.....view_start

If you look at A Bachanan’s and Aishwarya’s cocky looks it does look like they are actually flipping off here :-)

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