3rd April 2007 :: “No, this is not angootha. This is.”

Manu likes to tease us. The word for the big toe and the thumb in Hindi is "Angootha". One day I touched his big toe and said "This is angootha". Then I asked him what it is and he said "Gootha". I asked him a a few times over the next couple of days and he told me what it was, then he got bored. One day I asked him what it is and he said. "This is not gootha," and touched another of his toe "this is gootha". After that he kept insisting that the middle toe is the gootha and the big toes is actually an "unni". Ungli is the word for a finger and all the toes except the big toe.