Shri Shanidev: The Doorless Village

Shani Shingnapur is a small village in Maharashtra, India that has been depending on their deity for crime prevention measures and thus, has so far avoided using doors, windows or even locks. Such …

Indian Man Wants To Be His God’s Lover

Some men aspire to be gods, while others just want to shack up with them. The latter is the case for V K Saxena, a 72 retired railway man from India, who has donned bangles, skirt and makeup in imitat…

Man Calls in Bomb Threat to Avoid Missing Flight

An Indian man, clearly aggravated over the fact that traffic might cost him his flight on IndiGo airlines, decided that the best course of action was causing a panic and calling in a bomb threat to De…

Anaconda-Size Indian Pancake Sets Guinness Record

Some people are never satisfied! Even though the South Indian delicacy called the dosa must already have been the largest single-serving food item in the world, a restaurant in Ahmedabad, India, set o…

India Plays Host to Earliest Case of Leprosy

Currently taking up residence at the Deccan College Post-Graduate Research Institute in Pune, India, a skeleton unearthed in Rajasthan, India after 4,000 years of rest bears the earliest recorded sign…

Rented “Friends” Pad Wedding Guest Lists

“Help!! Our wedding’s not expensive enough!” When’s the last time you heard someone say that? How about never? The problem with weddings in the Western world is usually too high a price, no…

Does Buddha Live Reincarnated in the Nepalese Jungle?

Does the mighty Buddha live again in the form of a 17-year-old boy that spent more than one year in a remote jungle in southeast Nepal? Thousands of pilgrims who flocked to the site for a glimpse of R…

Freakish Trend Has Indian Villagers Seeing Double

Residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, eat your hearts out! For decades now, Minnesotans have spoken with pride of their “Twin Cities.” “Twin” refers to the fact that the two Mississippi River-…

Indian Man Has 5 Kidneys

Many people in need of a transplant struggle to receive just one organ. But a photographer from Khaira Dona village, in the northwest state of Punjab, India, is now living with five kidneys. …

Spice in Space: India Developing Curry For Space Travel

India’s race to send a man to the moon by 2015 is fraught with odd innovation. Having sent an unmanned probe to the Moon last November and being currently involved in a space race with China and …

The Goonch: Vicious Human-Eating Mutant Catfish

The Great Kali is a river that flows along the India-Nepal border. Ordinarily a rather serene location, a mutant, vicious catfish has been terrorizing natives who fear swimming and meeting up with the…

Indian Girl Cries Tears of Blood

In a weird and very unusual twist of medical fate, Rashida Khatoon, a young girl from northeast India cries tears of blood instead of water. She and her unusual medical condition have been transfor…

Village of Unmarried People’s Road to Love

The remote village of Barwaan Kala, west of Bihar in the heart of the Kaimur Hills in India, is the home of some 121 bachelors between the ages of 16 and 80. Since the village is so remote and ther…

No Toilet! No Bride!

In the northern Indian state of Haryana, courtship is generally intricate business, but the mothers of the brides-to-be have simplified matters by clearing stating to potential grooms: “If you don…