LUCKNOW: If you thought mummies can only be found inside Egyptian pyramids, then visit the State Medico Legal Cell (SMLC) office at Aishbagh. The dilapidated premises still houses the embalmed mortal remains of a murder victim who breathed her last almost 25 years ago. Read More................
Awaiting last rites for past 25 yrsLabels: last rites, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Woman
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Kailash ‘Kalau’ Singh is from the village of Chatav outside the holy city of Varanasi. He is 63-years-old and the father of seven daughters. He has gone for 35 years without bathing apparently in an attempt to have a son.
One of Singh’s neighbors, Madhusudan, says that a seer told Kalau years ago that if he didn’t take a bath, he would be blessed with a male child. It seems that many Indians prefer sons for financial reasons. Sons are breadwinners. Girls have to have the matrimonial dowry for the grooms family when they marry. Also, in Indian culture, all their earnings go to their husband’s family. For those reasons, girl children are considered a burden.
So for 35 years Singh hasn’t bathed. It appears his efforts are not working so far.
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Indian dad avoids washing for 35 years: report Labels: Bath, Father, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi
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VADODARA: He is somebody every company would yearn to hire. Why not, if he has worked for 1,100 days without leave? K Vijayan, 59, employed with a city-based hotel, hasn’t taken a single day’s leave for over three years now. Leave aside casual or sick leaves, Vijayan hasn’t even taken a single weekly off. And, this unusual feat has earned him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Read More................
Vadodara's workaholic sets world recordLabels: baroda, Gujarat, leave, work
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India's new cutting edge fashion: Women drinking wine.BANGALORE — Ever thought that a chicken tikka could be paired with a rose, or a palak paneer (cottage cheese in spinach) with a sauvignon blanc?
Aparna Bhagwat, 26, an architect who works at a Bangalore-based design firm, absolutely thinks so. So do her girlfriends.
In a country where drinking used to be taboo for women, and socializing meant sitting around watching the men get smashed, record numbers of urban women are taking to wine drinking, making it socially acceptable and even fashionable.Read More................
A glass of wine with your samosa? Labels: Bangalore, Karnataka, samosa, Wine, Women
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LUCKNOW: A man not being able to purchase a car for his son led to his 22-year-old son committing suicide by hanging himself here on Wednesday. incident was reported from Ghazipur police circle. The youth who took the grave step was identified as Kamal Kishore Sharma, a resident of B block, Indiranagar. Read More.....................................
Youth commits suicide on father's refusal to buy a carLabels: Car, Father, Suicide, Uttar Pradesh, youth
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MUMBAI: He had barely shut his eyes and crossed his legs in a meditative padmasana when pain flashed through his chest. In a quiet hamlet of Nadiad in Gujarat, Hemratna Suri Maharajsaheb, spiritual mentor to lakhs of Jains, died last Friday. Read More................
Monk's last rites go for a croreLabels: last rites, monk, Mumbai
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JUGGAR (Shimla): Like Tiresias in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, Bhadaru at 127 has seen it all. Fall of a mighty colonial power, rise of a democracy, a changed world order, falling values, rising temperatures.
But through the years he has not lost his commitment to the voting process. "I will vote this time too," he told TOI on Monday, reaffirming his faith in democracy. ``I have done it since 1952. Then it was Nehru," he recalled, going back in time. As he looked around, trying to bring back into his mind images from the past, he suddenly fixed his gaze on the present and said he hopes to see a day his village Juggar, 60 km from Shimla, will be connected by a motorable road. Read More................
At 127, India's oldest voter has seen it all Labels: election, Himachal Pradesh, old man
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Sales of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's autobiography and apologia for his anti-semitism, are soaring in India where business students regard the dictator as a management guru.
Booksellers told The Daily Telegraph that while it is regarded in most countries as a 'Nazi Bible', in India it is considered a management guide in the mould of Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese".
Sales of the book over the last six months topped 10,000 in New Delhi alone, according to leading stores, who said it appeared to be becoming more popular with every year. Read More................
Indian business students snap up copies of Mein Kampf Labels: Guru, hitler, India, Management
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CHENNAI, India – Beggars in the Indian capital are eying a windfall from tourists during next year's Commonwealth Games and some are learning to ask for alms in foreign languages, according to a newspaper report Sunday.
"More than one lakh (100,000) foreigners will be in the city during the period," Vijay Babli, reported by Hindustan Times as the leader of over 1,200 beggar families living in New Delhi's Rohini's Lal Quarter, told the paper. Read More................
India's beggars eye Commonwealth windfallLabels: Beggars, India, New Delhi
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