Indian filmmaker Satish Kaushik, who in 2003 helped Lal Bihari, founder of the Association of Dead People, accept the Ig Nobel Peace Prize — and who years later produced a feature film about the life and death and life of Lal Bihari — has himself died. This report in Business Standard brings the sad news: […]
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Update on Association of Dead People’s Award-winning Founder
Lal Bihari, who founded the Association of Dead People, is back in the news (and he’s still, again, alive). Outlook India magazine reports, with the headline “In UP’s Azamgarh, ‘Living Dead’ Have A Long Legal Battle To Fight“: … At age 21, Lal Bihari applied for a loan to start a business. The bank wanted […]
A one-person conversation about living in the wild à la several different animals
The Conversation invited Charles Foster to have one side of a conversation about his experiences living as animals. A few days ago, Foster shared the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize for biology. That prize was awarded jointly to Charles Foster, for living in the wild as, at different times, a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, and […]