The Stunning Artworks of “Needle Man”, the World’s Only Sewing Machine Painter
Arun Kumar Bajaj has a very unusual skill – he can paint with a sewing machine. Technically, it’s embroidering, not painting, but his artworks are so incredibly detailed that they could pass as hyper-realistic paintings to the untrained eye. And the fact that he does it all with a sewing machine just makes it that […]
Man Tells Bosses He Can’t Come To Work Because He Is Too Busy Being a Reincarnated God
After being served an official notice asking why he had only been present at work 16 times in the last 8 months, an engineer from the Indian state of Gujarat replied that he was the 10th incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, and had been too busy with divine work to focus on his job. […]
Indian Teen Posed as Hospital Doctor for Five Months Just by Wearing Face Mask and Stethoscope
A 19-year-old man with no medical training whatsoever managed to fool the staff at one of the most prestigious medical institutions in India into thinking that he was a doctor just by hanging out with real doctors and wearing a face mask and stethoscope. No one knows exactly why Adnan Khurram decided to impersonate a […]
Indian Minister Ridiculed For Claiming That Ancient Indians Had Access to Internet
We all know politicians sometimes say stupid things, they’re only human after all, but sometimes their statements just leave you scratching your head in disbelief. Take Indian minister Biplab Deb, who recently said that the internet existed back in the ancient days of Mahabharata. Speaking at a regional workshop on Public Distribution System (PDS) in Agartala, in […]
700-Year-Old Tree Infested with Termites Gets IV Drip Treatment
I always thought intravenous treatments only worked on humans and animals, but apparently they do wonders for sick trees as well. The world’s second-largest Banyan tree is currently being treated against a termite infestation, with an IV drip. Known as “Pillalamarri” or “Peerla Marri”, the 700-year-old Banyan tree in Mahabubnagar, India’s Telangana state, spreads across three acres, making […]
Indian Boy’s Body Can Allegedly Light Up LED Light Bulbs By Itself
A 9-year-old boy from Kerala, in India, has become a social media sensation after videos of him lighting rechargeable LED light bulbs just by touching their electrical contacts with any part of his body went viral online. Abu Thahir, who hails from Muhamma near Alappuzha, Kerala, discovered his unusual power only recently, while returning home with his […]
Indian Man Helps His Wife Marry Her Lover
Here’s something you don’t read about every day: an Indian man who had only been married for six days helped his new wife marry her lover so that the three of them could be happy together. On March 4, 28-year-old Basudep Tappo, a native of Palmara village, in the Indian state of Odisha, married a 24-year-old […]
Indian Girl Has Ants Pulled From Her Eyes Every Day And No One Knows How They Get There
An 11-year-old girl from Belthangady, India, recently made news headlines for having around 60 dead ants pulled from her eyes. As for how the insects got there, some doctors suggest they entered her body through the ears. Last week, the girl, known only as Ashwini, started complaining of severe pain in her eyes. She told her […]
Indian State Becomes World’s First to Offer Free Cosmetic Breast Surgery to the Poor
When thinking of ways to assist the poor, offering free breast augmentation or reduction surgery is probably not the first thing to come to mind, but that didn’t stop health department officials in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu from doing it. Most governments are tackling poverty problems the old fashioned way, trying to make […]
Indian Groom Forced to Marry Another Woman After Bride-to-Be Rejects Him Because He Is Balding
An Indian groom returned home with a different wife that the one he had originally intended to marry, after his bride-to-be refused to go ahead with the wedding upon seeing that he was balding. Dr. Ravi Kumar’s family had arranged his weeding to a girl in Sugauli village, Bihar, more than a year ago, and […]
Indian Woman Posing as Man Marries Two Other Women for Dowry
Krishna Sen, a woman from India’s Uttar Pradesh state who posed as a man for over 4 years, was recently arrested for marrying two women and harassing them for dowry. Krishna had always been a bit of a tomboy, but in 2013 she went a step further, adopting a male persona on social media and […]
Indian Man Allegedly Steals Wife’s Kidney as Unpaid Dowry
28-year-old Rita Sarkar’s husband frequently complained about her family’s failure to pay her dowry after their wedding, but she never imagined he would go as far as stealing one of her kidneys to make up for the unpaid dowry. She was wrong. The young woman recently told reporters that she had been the victim of domestic […]
Indian Man Single-Handedly Builds 8-Km Mountain Road So His Kids Could Visit More Often
A devoted father in the eastern Indian state of Orissa has single-handedly constructed an 8-km (5 miles) stretch of mountain road so that his children, who live away from home for school, can visit him more frequently. For the past two years Jalandhar Nayak, 45, set out every morning with an ax and crowbar and spent up […]
Indian Woman Disfigures Lover with Acid to Make Him Pass as Husband She Killed
They say that love brings out the best in people, but there are times when it just makes them commit unspeakable acts, murder included. This was the route taken by two Indian lovers, who hatched a plot worthy of a crime thriller. Swathi, 27, and her lover Rajesh murdered her husband and disposed of his […]
This Indian Coal Field Has Been Burning Continuously for Over 100 Years
One of India’s largest coal reserves, the Jharia coalfield, situated in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, is the site of one of the longest-burning fires in the world. The area has been burning continuously for over 100 years. Mining in the Jharia coalfields, which cover over 100 square miles, began in the late 1800s, under […]