Indian Woman Has Allegedly Spent Every Day of the Last 20 Years in a Lake Due to Strange Disease
A 65-year-old woman from a village in India’s West Bengal has allegedly spent every day for the past two decades submerged up to her neck in the waters of a nearby lake, due to an unknown disease. Before getting into this strange story, I have to disclose the fact that it is unverified. It went […]
Indian Officials Encourage Farmers to Chant Vedic Hymns to Improve Crop Yields
Authorities in the Indian state of Goa are encouraging farmers to adopt “cosmic farming” by chanting Vedic mantras to their fields for 20 days in order o improve the quality and quantity of their crops without the help of chemical fertilizers. Promoting organic farming is definitely commendable, but the approach of Goa’s Ministry of Agriculture […]
You Can Now Pay to Attend Strangers’ Weddings in India
Weddings are generally considered personal events reserved for family and friends, but some couples in India are more than happy to have total strangers from all over the world attend their traditional weddings, for a fee. Paying hundreds of dollars to attend the wedding of two total strangers in a foreign country may seem strange […]
7-Year-Old Boy Sleeps, Bathes and Plays with Deadly Snakes
Devesh Adivasi, a 7-year-old boy from rural Madhya Pradesh, in central India, has some very unusual best friends. For the past four years, he has been going into the jungle near his village and coming back with all kinds of snakes, some of them poisonous, that he plays, bathes and eats with. So far, he hasn’t […]
95-Year-Old Man Wakes Up at His Own Funeral, Says He Was Just Taking a Nap
A 95-year-old man from rural Rajasthan , in India, recently stunned his family when he woke up during his pre-funeral bath after a doctor had pronounced him dead. Budh Ram, a resident of Bhaktanwalan Ki Dhani, had fainted on Saturday afternoon, after complaining of chest pain. When his family found him, they called a private doctor, […]
Man Rescued After Burying Himself Alive So He Could Become a God
An Indian man was recently rescued from a pit that he had voluntarily been buried in for 8 hours in order to attain salvation and be reborn as a God. Deeraj Kharol, a tantrik who had been living in a temple in Karocho ka Kheda village, Rajasthan, for a few years, last week announced that he […]
Indian Universities To Teach Engineering Students That Batteries and Planes Were Invented in India Thousands of Years Ago
An Indian education organization recently sparked controversy by introducing an optional engineering course that teaches students that modern inventions like aeronautics, batteries, as well as knowledge of gravity existed in India during the Vedic Age, thousands of years ago. Human Resource Development Ministry (HRD) decided to introduce into the country’s engineering curriculum a controversial book […]
Woman Unhappy With Married Life Bites Off Husband’s Tongue During Kiss
An Indian man was recently left unable to speak after his enraged eight-month pregnant wife bit off his tongue when he tried kissing her during an argument. If you thought a French kiss was the best way appease a woman’s wrath during a fight, this story may make you think twice the next time you […]
Man Makes Short Film, Plasters Neighborhoods with Thousands of Posters in Hope of Finding Girl He Saw on Train
A 29-year-old love-struck man from Kolkata, India, recently made international headlines for his efforts to get in touch with a woman he exchanged glances with on a train. He made a short film that he then posted on YouTube, plastered several neighborhoods with around 4,000 posters, and has been wearing the exact same clothes he […]
The Indian Village Where People Play with Live Scorpions
Most people wouldn’t dare touch a scorpion for all the money in the world, but in one small Indian village, people actually seek out the poisonous arachnids and put them on their faces, or eve in their mouths, as part of a worshiping ritual. Every year, on Naga Panchami, when most of India worships the […]
India’s Great Banyan Tree Is Its Own Forest
If you were to see the Great Banyan Tree in the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden from a distance, you could be forgiven for mistaking it for a forest. Spanning more than 14,493 square meters, the tree is the widest in the world—so large that it covers more ground than the average Wal-Mart. […]
Man Puts Up 300 Billboards and Signs Overnight to Ask Girlfriend’s Forgiveness
A young Indian businessman who wanted to get back on his girlfriend’s good side after an argument put up 300 billboards and signs all over their local suburb, to let her know he wanted her forgiveness. It’s not clear what 25-year-old Nilesh Khedekar had done to upset his girlfriend, but he clearly thought it serious enough […]
Wife and Daughters Hire Hitmen to Kill Husband Who Didn’t Allow Them to Wear Jeans
An Indian woman and her four daughters have confessed to hiring contract killers to have their husband/father murdered because he refused to let them wear jeans. The lifeless body of Meharbaan Ali, a police sub-inspector, was found in a sewage canal in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, just 250 meters from his home, on Sunday. An investigation began and […]
Indian Man Prays to Photo of Donald Trump Every Day
It’s no secret that Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters idolize him, but we have yet to hear about any of them worshipping him as a god. Interestingly, that’s exactly what an Indian man has been doing for the last three years, and he’s not even a Trump supporter. Bussa Krishna, a 31-year-old farmer from the […]
Woman Poisons Dozens at Housewarming Party Trying to Kill Family Who Made Fun of Her Cooking
A 23-year-old woman from Khalapur, India, is risking the death penalty for poisoning the food at a relative’s housewarming party in an attempt to kill attendees who made fun of her dark completion and cooking skills. Police in Khalapur claim that 23-year-old Pradnya Survase confessed to mixing snake poison into the dal served to some of […]