The New Delhi Pioneer reports about a new initiative by Ig Nobel Prize winner Lal Bihari: Upper Pradesh’s ‘dead’ await justice, resurrection on June 30 In their quest to tell the world that they are still alive, hundreds of ‘dead’ drawn from all over the State would assemble in Azamgarh to observe their ‘Punarjanam Diwas’ […]
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Cause and Effect: Avenging Elephants
Fr. Sunil de Silva, of the organization America Needs Fatima, reports what is (to him) almost certainly a case of cause and effect: In July 2008 a severe persecution of Christians broke out in the Indian state of Orissa….The end result saw more than 500 Christians murdered, and thousands of others injured… Recently a strange […]
The aim of the tiles
Meena Kadri looks at the psychology of tile placement: Disrupting Urination Norms In Mumbai someone kindly explained to me the custom of putting wall tiles of gods from different religions along street facades. They’re positioned at pissing height – and act as a perfect deterrent in a reverent nation.