Time for another edition of Incredible India. * So you think if you are sick, old or pregnant you are safe from the marauding pigs in khaki in Incredible India. Only shows how naive you are. A pregnant woman and her three-year-old daughter were tossed out of a moving train by two policemen in Lakhimpur […]
Time for another edition of Incredible India. * 62 years after the Brits said good riddance to their largest colony and packed their bags, the average monthly income for an Indian is $66 (Rs 3,116). According to the numbers put out by the country’s Central Statistical Organisation today, India has a per capita income of […]
Folks, here we are for the quarter-century edition of Incredible India. So all ye schmucks in ignoranceville think our President Barack Obama faces a threat only from the Al Queda or the right-wing extremists in the U.S. Shows how little you know. You see, the Biharis are second to none when it comes to violence. […]
Time for another edition of Incredible India, folks. * A 12-year-old girl in the North Indian city of Jaipur who delivered a child the other day did not even realize she was pregnant until the delivery. No, we are not kidding. Here’s an excerpt from the Times of India story: She was too young to […]
Only in Incredible India, folks. Only in India. An indefinite fast by a politician for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka lasts but six hours and fails to achieve the ceasefire demanded. What else can you expect when the politician in question is the Loose Paiya (crackpot) a.k.a. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi, who claims the […]
Folks, here comes the 22nd instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. * This one is straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book and we were tongue-tied when we first heard this. Mahesh, a follower of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, cut his tongue at a Hindu temple as a […]