Tag Archive | "Hindu"

Pink Panties: A Weapon For Ridiculing Extremists

Monday, February 23, 2009

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Pink Panties: A Weapon For Ridiculing Extremists

It has been about a week since Valentine's Day, and the internet has been deluged with stories of what people did that day ever since. Amazingly, one of them was actually worth reading about. It occurred in India, where rapid modernization and liberalization has put traditionalists on the defensive.

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Baby Girl Born With Two Faces and Four Eyes, Worshipped as a God

Sunday, March 16, 2008

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In the rural Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, 50km north east of New Delhi, a woman gave birth to a baby girl with two faces and four eyes. The 4 day old is being hailed by villagers as the reincarnation of Ganesha – a Hindu God, who is [...]

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Environmentalism in 1778

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

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Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India, the Roman Empire, and the Japanese Edo period. A painting of the 1778 Bishnoi massacre Today we’re going to India in 1778 to cover a forest, a desert, and a tribe of environmentalists [...]

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Giant’s Skeleton – It’s A Hoax!!

Sunday, December 23, 2007

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The National Geographic Society have been batting away a plethora of interest in their 5 year old hoax. In 2002, an illustrator from Canada who goes by the screen name “IronKite”, submitted the photo of a giant’s skeleton to a Worth1000.com Photoshop contest

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