Until the early 1920s, some female factory workers in America and Canada, known as Radium Girls, were on the job of glazing watch dials with radium, then said to have zero health hazard. They loved the glaze so much that they began painting their lips, face, teeth and fingernails with this.

To their misfortune it turned out to be a deadly poison eventually leading to their death!

I have here bone-chilling experiences of tongue tapping people who make their tongue a touch screen for swiping and turning the paper sheets with their fingers.

Be it a cool fellow flipping through magazine pages, or one counting, sorting and changing hands with banknotes, the finger licking practice is there.

You can see this among advocates and judges, laborers and bureaucrats, accountants and cashiers, traders and taxis, teachers and family folks who with least caution browse through or passing the papers. Counting or browsing is a universal trend, but does anyone know when such objects move, change hands and transfer or stay put, these get dirty? Banknotes are the objects tainted with faecal matter, sweat, snot and bacteria as they pass on.

Their texture has cotton, linen and ink toxins containing a code of bad smell too as a measure of precaution against counterfeiters.

Before you call finger licking filthy and unhygienic, you cannot stop it too because today it seems to be a cult and culture. A civilization is bigger than a metropolis! I have its examples here.

What should one say to the world if in a Nobel Award event, an anchor was finger licking while browsing reflexively through his papers? Would it be wise again to retell my Toronto visit where in the army museum a Canadian retiree general swiped his finger over his tongue before his fingers were at a book page? It was sickening and I could hardly stop myself from throwing out the stomach contents.

In another illustration you know if one holds the palm of another it is a handshake to greet one formally. A handshake is a pure action of fingers as good as any like touching and is viral without water! Kathmandu especially has its hazards where washrooms have no running tap and sanitizer.

Another disgusting view is of teachers who finger-lick question papers for passing or research papers for flipping, and banks where banknotes receive finger-licks over the cash counter. You can feel the dreadful scenario here when you see advocates and judges licking postage stamps.