Government job to woman who cut off her tongue to honour a politician

A human rights campaigner in India has criticised the award of a government job to a woman who cut off part of her tongue "to honour" a politician.

SV Raja Durai said the decision to give K Sarita a job preparing meals in schools would encourage copycat acts.

Ms Sarita maimed herself as an offering to the chief minister of Tamil Nadu state, and only swift medical help saved her tongue. Read More................Government job to woman who cut off her tongue to honour a politician

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Youth Cuts Own Tongue For Abusing Friend

Bhopal: A 25-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas district Tuesday cut his tongue for abusing and hurting his friend, police said.Anand, who has been admitted to a hospital, left a letter at the Sai Baba Temple in Dewas, around 160 km from here, saying: “I have abused my friend that hurt him very much so I am cutting my tongue.” Read More................Youth hacks own tongue for abusing friend

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Woman slices girl’s tongue to attain wealth

Lucknow: A woman in Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh allegedly sliced off the tongue of her neighbour’s four-month-old daughter Wednesday after a godman told her it would make her rich. Read More................Woman slices girl’s tongue to attain wealth

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Man slashes tongue fearing police arrest

A man slashed his tongue in Cuttack town of Orissa after his landlord filed a police complaint accusing him of stealing valuables from the house, police said Sunday.

Raju Mohanty, staying as a tenant in Madhupatna area of Cuttack town, chopped his tongue Saturday night, fearing police action against him in the theft case in the landlord's house. Read More................Man slashes tongue fearing police arrest in Orissa

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Man cuts off tongue before deity to have son

Lucknow: A childless man sliced off his tongue and offered it to the deity in an Uttar Pradesh temple to be 'blessed with a son', police said Tuesday.

Mukesh Kumar, 28, a resident of Banthari village in Banda district, some 200 km from Lucknow, cut off his tongue late Monday evening with a razor blade at the Mahesh temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, situated in the same village, officials added. Read More................Man cuts off tongue before deity to have son

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Man cuts tongue to get a job

Lucknow: An unemployed man sliced his tongue at a temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad town as an offering to appease the Hindu god Shiva and “get blessed with a job”, police said Tuesday. Read More................Man cuts tongue to get a job

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Devotee offers Tongue to Goddess Durga

BAHRAICH: In an extreme case of religious reverence, a devotee offered his tongue to Goddess Durga in a temple here on Thursday.

Ramroop, a resident of Adharipurwa village under Risia police station, first offered prayers to the Goddess Durga in the temple of Samai Mata located in Chakia gram and then cut off his tongue with a knife and placed it at the feet of the Goddess. Read More................Devotee offers tongue to Goddess Durga

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Man cuts his Tongue to 'appease' God

Bhubaneswar (Orissa): Aswini Patel, 25, of neighbouring Chhattisgarh state visited Rourkela, some 500 km from here Tuesday and went to a Shiva temple near the railway station. He then cut his tongue with a razor blade in an Orissa temple to appease a deity, the police said Wednesday. Read more...........................Orissa man cuts his tongue to 'appease' deity

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Woman Chops off Tongue to please God

Blind faith in anything often blinds ones intellect & it clouds the rational reasoning of a person. Under such a clouded reasoning an Indian woman did one weird act when she cut out her own tongue and offered it to God in the hope it would help her find her missing husband!!!!

In "Varanasi" city in Utter Pradesh state of India, a woman "Shaila Bai" aged 50, reportedly cut out her own tongue with a razor at "Kashi Vishwanath temple", as per a report of (Calcutta) Telegraph.

Bai and her husband came to Varanasi on May 23 to take a holy dip in the Ganga and offer their prayers at the temple, but police said her husband then went missing. And when the woman couldn't find him, she decided a sacrifice to God her own tongue.

"We are trying to find out how a woman could enter the temple with a razor," said a police officer, adding that some eyewitnesses said she fell down and bit off her tongue.

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Religion makes man cut his tongue

Blind faith in anything can be dangerous many times & can lead to a mishap as it blinds ones intellect & clouds the rational reasoning. Something similar has happened, when in a bizarre incident, during "Navratras" festival , one man from Ludhiana city in Punjab state of India cut his own tongue to offer it to goddess "Kali". "Navratras" is a religious festival of the Hindus, where people worship Goddess Durga & Kali by fasting & performing religious ceremonies during nine days period of the festival.

Man was immediately rushed to the government civil hospital here on Monday after he cut his own tongue to offer it to the goddess.

Doctors at the civil hospital performed a surgery on the man after people rushed him there as he was bleeding profusely.

The doctors were able to stitch the tongue back.

So here is a classic example when religion makes one do weird acts in the name of religion.

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