Following on from the toilet topic of previous blog, the left hand is for bum cleaning (nose clearing/picking too I observe). The right is for food handling or passing things to others. It´s quite a skill breaking up nan bread or chappatti with one hand and even more so if one is a leftie. It´s OK to eat from a spoon or fork, drink from a cup held in left hand but when possible, use the right.
For the first time in my life I felt almost embarassed being a south paw when an Indian guy watched me writing and made a remark, "So you´re left handed." I have to almost sit on my left hand at table. Today I automatically made the eating gesture with my 'únclean' hand to my driver to ask if he´d eaten (his english isn´t great) and realised I may have caused offence!
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