A joint study by the World Health organisation and UNICEF ‘Diarrhoea: Why Children Are Still Dying and What Can Be Done’, also pointed out that India has the largest number of persons that defecate in the open worldwide. Out of a total of 2.5 billion people worldwide that defecate openly, 665 million belong to India. [...]
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665 million Indian defecate in the open space
Posted in Funny India, Health, India Facts, tagged Hindutva, India on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
India’s richest woman can’t afford a car
Posted in Corruption, Funny India, India Facts, Poverty, Women, tagged GDP, Globalization, haryana, Hindu, Hindutva, Savitri Jindal, Upper Class, Women on September 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
HISAR: She is said to be India’s richest woman. But Congress nominee from Hisar assembly seat, Savitri Jindal, does not own a car. However, the Haryana minister for revenue has wealth worth $2.9 billion, according to the Forbes Magazine survey of richest women of the world.
In her statement given before the returning officer, while filing [...]
Baby with two faces worshipped as Hindu god
Posted in Children, Funny India, Hindutva, tagged Hindu, Hindutva, India, Superstitions, Wired on April 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A baby girl born with two faces in a north Indian village is being worshipped as the reincarnation of the Hindu god, Lord Ganesha. The three-week-old unnamed baby from Saini village in Uttar Pradesh state, 30 miles north-east of the capital New Delhi, is being hailed as a “miracle” child. Hundreds of locals are flocking to seek her “blessing” and, in keeping with Indian traditional, showering her parents with money.
India’s Gandharis
Posted in Funny India, Hindutva, Poverty, Women, tagged Anaemia, Anemia, Caste System, Children, Health, Health Survey, Hindu, Human Rights, India, Poverty, Sexual Abuse, Women on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Alas! Israel’s ever thriving security business found more scope in India’s poverty. Now, Indian wombs can protect Israel’s future citizens from a possible rocket attack from Hamas. A recent story from Amelia Gentleman is all about India’s new line up of Gandharis, who rent their wombs for bread.
Hindutva school drop outs will never [...]
Final Fatwa from Brahmins
Posted in Funny India, Hindutva, tagged Bangalore, Brahmin, Dalits, Hindutva, Human Rights, India, RSS, Travel on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hindu leaders in Udipi seek ban for monk who went abroad
BANGALORE, India (Reuters) – Conservative Hindu leaders in the pilgrim town of Udipi in Karnataka are seeking to prevent a monk from heading one of the country’s most popular temples saying he had become “impure” because he had travelled overseas.
The debate has divided [...]