Thousands of charmers still perform across India despite the law Some 1,000 snake charmers have staged a rally in eastern India, protesting against a law that has made their profession illegal. Playing their flutes, they marched in the city of Calcutta, demanding the right to perform with live snakes. Shows featuring cobras and other snakes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘India’
13 Feb
Indian women: Pink Chaddi Campaign wants your underwear to defeat thugs who beat up women
Posted by Cory Doctorow, February 9, 2009 3:34 PM | permalink Rishab sez, To counter a disturbing trend of right-wing Hindu thugs beating up women going to pubs or wearing clothes they don’t approve of, Bangalore-based Alternative Law Forum (ALF) has launched a satirical campaign to support India’s “Pubgoing Loose and Forward Women”.The Pink Chaddi [...]
13 Feb
India to launch cow urine as soft drink
By Jeremy Page, Delhi Does your Pepsi lack pep? Is your Coke not the real thing? India’s Hindu nationalist movement apparently has the answer: a new soft drink made from cow urine. The bovine brew is in the final stages of development by the Cow Protection Department of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s biggest [...]
