Not a rare occurence according to the BBC.
*According to police records, some 200 people have been killed in Assam in the past five years for allegedly practicing witchcraft. *
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Sick.
Govt better put some schools in that area and educate these tribals...
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That's really unfortunate and despicable. Illiteracy in the particular area is the rootcause.
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Very sad. The disease could've been an epidemic.
Would they be able to find out what illness it was that was spreading amongst the residents of the area?
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Is illiteracy the only cause of such barbarisms?
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Yes, unless modern education is imparted with modern curriculum people will keep using barbarian methods ... same as in Afghanistan... where government is ready to bhead a person based on relgion ... that is typical medival response ... and this is typical medival response..
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Moderan educated people incited the slaughter of Muslims in Gujarat.
Literate high caste Hindu's go around murdering low caste Dalits and sudras'.
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Yeah, why are you ignoring the religious matters related to goddess Kali? It has nothing to do with modern education dude. These are rituals. Magic, fortune telling, superstitiousness etc are rampant in religious circles.
Children 'buried alive' to appease Gods
More than 100 children have been buried alive in India as part of a 400-year-old ritual to appease two female deities.
They were buried for about a minute during a ceremony known as Kuzhi Maatru Thiruvizhaa, which translates as festival of pits.
The ritual is practiced by a small group of Hindus in Tamil Nadu. It is observed every five to seven years, in the belief that villagers' wishes will be granted by goddesses Muthukuzhi Mariamman and Kaliamman.
Only prepubescent females are allowed to take part but there is no age restriction on males.
The participants are supposedly rendered "unconscious" by relatives who sprinkle ash on their heads and spray turmeric water on their faces before carrying them to a burial ground in front of a temple.
According to tradition, if the child fails to fall unconscious the burial is deemed cancelled and the family fined the equivalent of £13.47.
It is reported gravediggers ensure the children are too ''exhausted'' to try and wriggle out of the pit at the time they are being buried. The children, wrapped in yellow cloth, are lowered into makeshift graves, which are fully covered, and pulled out only after priests say a minute has passed.
C.Durairaj, Tamil Nadu's minister for Housing and Urban Development, who was guest of honour at the ritual in Perayur, told "I went there and witnessed the festival on the invitation of the community which organised it. I've nothing more to say."
A former president of the Perayur Council, known only as Kaliraj, claimed there had been no untoward incident at the festival so far.
There have been protests against the ritual but politicians are apparently loath to intervene. Police do not see it necessary to interfere in the absence of complaints from the general public.
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Gujarat, looks like the ace of spade when our hardline friends run out of arguments, when Gujarat in reverse is happening across the Muslim world in each place in the name of religion..
Anyway, the thread about happenings in tribal area and there it is due to illitracy.
About Gujarat, I am sure there would have been threads there reasons for Gujarat have been discussed. As there are reasons from Muslims for 9/11, or there were reasons for London Bombings, As there are reasons for cleansing going on in Bangaldesh, as there are reasons of Hindu girls being abducted in Pakistan, as there are reasons for killing people for Catoons..
You are comparing Apples and Oranges..
Anyway since you have turned this thread also into anti India Hindu bashing rather than discussing the point.......... may be this will be my last response.......
Have a nice hateful day....... :-)
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Sacred dog leaves intensive care with fanfare
A dog worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu saint has left an Indian animal hospital after recovering from kidney problems.
Sai, a seven-year-old white Spitz, is believed to be Shirdi Saibaba, a saint who lived in the western state of Maharashtra around 100 years ago.
A special exit was arranged for the dog as he was discharged from the intensive care unit of an animal hospital in Bombay.
Devotees distributed biscuits and sweets to the other animals, draped a shawl around Sai and applied a vermilion dot to his forehead.
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More on this related to religion than to education…
Man sucks blood of 207 goats and wants more
A man has sucked the blood of 207 goats sacrificed at a Hindu temple.
Sisir Das, a practitioner of Hindu occult rituals, drank the goats’ blood at the Kali temple in Bengal’s Midnapore district over the past four days.
The United News of India says blood sucking runs in the sorcerer’s family and that his thirst for blood “remains insatiable”
Mr Das told the paper that his father was directed by the goddess Kali to drink the blood of sacrificed animals.
He added; "But the number of sacrifices then was 40 in four days. I made a record by sucking the blood of 207 goats this year.
http://www.dalitstan.org/sol/bizz.htm
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Rahul67, you first brought in irrelevant topics like Afghanistan to obviously have a dig at Muslims, so you must have run out of arguments. Thanks for your participation. :)
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Children 'buried alive' to appease Gods More than 100 children have been buried alive in India as part of a 400-year-old ritual to appease two female deities.
They were buried for about a minute during a ceremony known as Kuzhi Maatru Thiruvizhaa, which translates as festival of pits.
The ritual is practiced by a small group of Hindus in Tamil Nadu. It is observed every five to seven years, in the belief that villagers' wishes will be granted by goddesses Muthukuzhi Mariamman and Kaliamman.
Only prepubescent females are allowed to take part but there is no age restriction on males.
The participants are supposedly rendered "unconscious" by relatives who sprinkle ash on their heads and spray turmeric water on their faces before carrying them to a burial ground in front of a temple.
According to tradition, if the child fails to fall unconscious the burial is deemed cancelled and the family fined the equivalent of £13.47.
It is reported gravediggers ensure the children are too ''exhausted'' to try and wriggle out of the pit at the time they are being buried. The children, wrapped in yellow cloth, are lowered into makeshift graves, which are fully covered, and pulled out only after priests say a minute has passed.
C.Durairaj, Tamil Nadu's minister for Housing and Urban Development, who was guest of honour at the ritual in Perayur, told "I went there and witnessed the festival on the invitation of the community which organised it. I've nothing more to say."
A former president of the Perayur Council, known only as Kaliraj, claimed there had been no untoward incident at the festival so far.
There have been protests against the ritual but politicians are apparently loath to intervene. Police do not see it necessary to interfere in the absence of complaints from the general public.
Yes, as above there are many a medival practices still prevalent across the world (What do you call Bull Fight) in the name of religion/ culture/ convention.
Only way out of it is modern education, and I meant education not literacy......
Though looking at your and some of your friends responses, what baffels me is your interest in India. May be good will be to visit India sometime, You can be my guest............ :D
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Whenever we talk FACTS about India and Hinduism, we are labelled “Anti-India” “Hindu Bashers” And “Hindu haters”
Next thing, Indians run away for not having enerhy to face the truths themselves. 
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I just drew a parallel for you to see the things in right perspective rather than turnign everything into India and Hindu bashing.............
Since thanks to Google there are many things that can be turned into Muslim and bashing of Pakistan, though I try to keep away from them for the sake of saner discussion.... rather than just demeaning everything related to somebody else......
As for thanks for your participation, itself shows your holier than thou attitude where you are going about a discussion with closed mind and colored glasses...
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@ Rahul67
I have a strong feeling this will be the thread of the day 
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The challenge is you try to see Hinduism in frame work of Islam, you refuse to understand that its not a religion of book, its a religion which gives freedom to evolve with time,
Hence if you start looking at gaps in Hinduism its all over, since its a living and breathing and evolving all the time.
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I don’t understand one thing dude. When people claim these are “ordered by XYZ god” how can you label such religious practices illetracy. Doesn’t it mean that you are slandering your own religious teachings?
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May be, since it will give you lots of pleasure at the end of day, with a feelign that how much more you abused hindus and India today..
as for me once I have made my points, I will move on… 
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Indian villagers marry frogs hoping for rain
Indian villagers have married a pair of frogs in the hope the ceremony will bring them rain.
They believe frogs are messengers from Indra, the rain god.
Villagers in Raipur divided into groups representing bride and groom and followed Hindu tradition by applying Turmeric paste to the bride frog.
Nandi Ghosh Panda, who performed the marriage, said: “They will take our message that we are suffering because of the drought and it will surely rain”.
“This frog marriage was the height of superstitious belief.”