India

Telling fortunes is a past-time that spans continents and the ages. People have told fortunes based on a deck of cards, flaws in a ball of crystal, the places where the stars go in the sky and many other things. Lots of people believe in the results of these things. We have all heard of sacrificing animals and reading the entrails. We have heard of swirling tea leaves in a cup, casting sticks, casting coins, and some of this reading audience has even used the Ouija Board. Even stranger, some people even listen to the weatherman, which is one thing I have managed to largely avoid.

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Marking a significant shift in Monkey-Gang violence, the Deputy Mayor of Delhi, India, was the object of a “mob-style” hit by Rhesus Macaque monkeys on Sunday, October 21. S. S. Bajwa, the Deputy Mayor, was relaxing in his home on his balcony when the alleged hit took place. After ‘roughing him up’ for a period of time, neighbors report that a large group of Rhesus Macaques then tossed him off of his balcony, and he later died of head injuries.

Suspected Gang Leader Burning Rival Gang-Leader's House

Monkey-on-Man violence has recently been a growing concern among officials in the Indian Government. The most violent perpetrators of these attacks have been the notorious Rhesus Macaque gang in Delhi. Having started in small time crimes such as black-market fruit trading, the Macaques (known on the streets as the RM) have escalated their illegal activities to include protection rackets, illegal drug distribution, and, some now speculate, strong-arming city officials and the police to turn a blind eye to their ever increasing profits and crimes.

India is a nation on the rise. Fifty years ago, or so, India first gained its independence from Great Britain, and has come to be a major leader in software development and on-line software troubleshooting. India has a budding space exploration program, a nuclear weapons cache, an advanced army, a huge population, and, evidently, some of the most primitive beliefs you can imagine.

According to the All Headline News, there is a group of students and parents that are very angry about the beliefs of one school principal in particular. It appears that the school had previously employed a teacher that was from one of the lower castes in India. Yes, I am referring to the same set of castes that no longer exist, officially. When that teacher left the school, the higher-caste principal came by the room and purified the class.

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He purified the class with cow urine by splattering them with it.

In 2001, the residents of India began to experience a rain shower. This is nothing new, of course, in a land that regularly gets flooded in the monsoon season. The difference was that this rain was red. Deep red.