Woman Fights Full-Grown Tiger With Bare Hands to Save One-Year-Old Son
A 25-year-old woman from Madhya Pradesh, India, is being hailed a hero after she reportedly fought a tiger with her own hands in order to save her toddler son. They say a mother’s love for her child is like nothing else, and Archana Choudhary a young woman from rural Madhya Pradesh, recently proved it when […]
Woman Arrested for Allegedly Poisoning Daughter’s Academic Rival
An Indian woman was recently arrested after allegedly spiking a soft drink and offering it to one of her daughter’s classmates as payback for performing better than her in school. In a shocking case that recently rocked Indian society to its core, a 42-year-old woman is being accused of poisoning a 13-year-old boy purely out […]
Students Allegedly Tie Math Teacher to Tree, Beat Him Over Poor Grades
Dozens of students at an Indian school are suspected of tying a math teacher and a school clerk to a tree and beating them, after a number of them received poor grades on an exam. In a shocking incident that took place last Monday, students of the Scheduled Tribe Residential School in Dumka, India’s Jharkhand […]
Gang Runs Fake Police Station Right Next to Real One for Eight Months
A gang in the Indian state of Bihar somehow managed to run a fake police station out of a hotel for eight months before finally being caught by the actual police. Cases of fraudsters impersonating police officers and soldiers are not uncommon in India, a country where the fear of and the respect for those […]
Couple in Their 70s Have First Baby After 54 Years of Marriage
A couple of septuagenarians from India’s Rajasthan state recently welcomed their first baby after 54 years of marriage, which makes them one of the oldest couples in history to ever have a baby. 75-year-old Gopichand and his 70-year-old wife Chandravati, had long been trying to have a baby, but their dream never came true. For […]
Teen Girl Injects Herself with HIV-Positive Boyfriend’s Blood “To Prove Her Love”
A 15-year-old girl in India allegedly came up with a bizarre way of proving her love to her HIV-positive boyfriend – injecting herself with his blood. Ah, the things we do for love… Are sometimes pretty darn stupid and dangerous. Take this bizarre story for a teenage girl from India’s Assam state, who apparently decided […]
You Can Buy a Husband at India’s 700-Year-Old Groom Market
For over 700 years, the Indian state of Bihar has been hosting a unique groom market where women and their families come to shop for husbands. Every year, thousands of men gather under the Pipal trees in the local market area of Madhubani district, India’s Bihar state, and wait to be chosen by prospective brides. […]
Indian Man Has Not Bathed in 22 Years
A 62-year-old man from Bihar, India has been getting a lot of attention in his home country after it was revealed that he has not taken a bath in over two decades. Dharamdev Ram is famous in his home village of Baikunthpur. Everybody knows that he hasn’t taken a bath or even a quick shower […]
Politician Drinks Water from Polluted ‘Holy River’ to Prove It Is Clean, Ends Up in Hospital
An Indian politician who drank a glass of water straight out of a polluted ‘holy river’ to show locals that it was safe to drink was reportedly airlifted to a hospital a couple of days later. On Sunday, July 17, while visiting Sultanpurlodhi, Bhagwant Mann, Chief Minister of Punjab, pulled off a rather daring publicity […]
Ancient Wonder – The 1,600-Year-Old Iron Pillar That Refuses to Rust
The Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque complex in New Delhi is home to an ancient wonder of metal work – a 1,600-year-old iron pillar that is exceptionally resistant to rust. The Iron Pillar of Qutub Minar, as this ancient monument is sometimes referred to, measures 7.21-meters-tall, has a diameter of 41 centimeters and weighs about 6 tons. It’s […]
Electrician Cuts Village Power Repeatedly to Meet Girlfriend in Secret
An Indian man was recently ousted as the cause of frequent power outages in his native village, as he always cut the power in the entire settlement whenever he wanted to see his girlfriend. For weeks, the people of Ganeshpur, a small village in eastern Bihar’s Purnia district, had to put up with frequent power […]
The Indian Town Where Human and Leopard Allegedly Live in Harmony
Bera, a small town in the Indian state of Rajasthan is famous for being the only place on Earth where humans and leopards live in perfect harmony. India is one of the most densely-populated countries on Earth, and as humanity continues to encroach on the still-uninhabited woodlands and mountains, conflicts between leopards and humans are […]
Indian Woman Lived Disguised as a Man for 36 Years to Raise Child Alone
After losing her husband to a heart attack, an Indian woman spent 39 years pretending to be a man so she could raise her daughter alone in a patriarchal society. S Petchiammal had only been married for 15 days when her husband succumbed to a massive heart attack. She was 20 years old at the […]
Man’s 10.8-Centimeter-Long Tongue May Be World’s Longest
K Praveen, a 21-year-old man from Thiruthangal in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu, has a 10.8-centimeter-long tongue, according to the India Book of Records. According to the University of Edinburgh, the average human male tongue is around 8.5-cm-long, which makes K Praveen’s tongue over 2.5cm longer, and probably the longest in the world. The young robotics student […]
India’s ‘Living Dead’ and the Man Who Spent 18 Years Proving That He Was Alive
Lal Bihari is probably India’s most famous living dead, one of many people killed off in official records so that relatives can claim their possessions for themselves. Killing off somebody on paper is apparently not that hard to do in India. All you need is some bribe money and local officials willing to do some […]