Wierd: A tribal girl is married to Dog
Jharkhand: Bitter Wedding: Pushpa, a tribal girl is married to a puppy in a ritual for good health at Kuluptanga area in Adityapur under Saraikele-Kharsawan district of Jharkhand on Tuesday(19th Feb 2008).
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At Varnasi hostel guest check in to DIE
VARANASI, India (Reuters) - After checking in at the Mukti Bhawan hostel , guests have two weeks to die or else they are gently asked to leave. The hostel -- a short walk from the Ganges river in Varanasi -- is a final stopover for elderly Hindus hoping they will shortly end up on one of the hundreds of funeral pyres lit on the river bank each day. (An old man sleeps on the floor at the Mukti Bhavan hostel in Varanasi June 1, 2007. The hostel -- a short walk from the Ganges river in Varanasi -- is a final stopover for elderly Hindus hoping they will shortly end up on one of the hundreds of funeral pyres lit on the riverbank each day.) "While the rest of the world celebrates a new life when a child is born, similarly we celebrate death," said Bhairav Nath Shukla, the cheerful manager of Mukti Bhawan, one of several places offering shelter to outsiders wanting to die in the city. Hindus believe that dying in Varanasi and having their remains scattered in the Ganges allows thei...
Flash news: Man eats 2 kg of grass every day
Legend has it that the 16th century Rajput ruler Maharana Pratap had survived in exile by eating rotis made of grass. In 2007, Gangaram Gautam , a daily wage labourer in Kanpur , seems so inspired by Maharana Pratap’s example that he eats 2 kg of grass every day, and thrives. “I was around 7 years old when I first ate grass. I liked the taste and gradually increased my intake without letting my family members know about this habit. I had heard about Maharana Pratap eating ghaas ki roti and I thought I would eat it too,” he says. Now, at 41, Gangaram feels “incomplete” unless he has eaten his staple diet of 2 kg of grass. “Initially I would eat normal food along with the grass, but for the past four or five years I have been eating only grass. After eating grass, I walk at a speed of 15 km per hour in order to digest the food,” he explains. Every day, when he feels hungry, Gangaram goes to nearby parks and gardens and “grazes” till he has had his fill. “In the beginning the gardeners ...