Source: WHO Report – Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2010 update

Is there anyone out there who still avers that India has not arrived on the world stage.

Folks, if there were any doubts at all about nookulear India’s preeminence in the world the above pie-chart sets everything to rest.

Truly, the 21st century belongs to India!

Mera Bharat Mahaan

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India – A Shitty Country, Literally

(For SI blog reader VJcool)

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls picked them every one
When will they ever learn?

- American folksinger and song-writer Pete Seeger: “Where have all the flowers gone?”

In Incredible India, you don’t say it with flowers anymore.

So yesteryear. So uncool.

Marigold, Champa, Jasmine and Rose – who cares for them anymore in India?

Flowers are out. Their stench is unbearable.

And currency notes are in. Ah, what a sweet smell these crisp notes spread all around them!

Even India’s esteemed netas are now eschewing malodorous flowers for fragrant currency notes.

Take for instance, Mayawati a.k.a Maya behn, our beloved Maharani Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Bahujan Samaj Party leader.

On Monday to celebrate 25 years of the BSP and the 76th birthday of its late founder Kanshi Ram at the Ramabai Ambedkar maidan in Lucknow, Maya behn was honored by her supporters with a garland of flowers Rs 1,000 notes.

Hey, we can smell the fragrance of the currency even here across the ocean.

Her Royal Highness Mayawati
(Photo: UP Govt. web site)

Not for our Maya behn Rs 100 or lesser denomination notes or God forbid the coins that lesser leaders are weighed in not so infrequently in the various corners of Incredible India.

Ram, the Hindu God beloved of a billion stupid Indians, seems to be in an angry mood.

So angry that the ‘God’ went on a RAMpage that took the lives of 65 of his devotees today in a stampede at the Ram Janaki temple in Kunda town of Pratapgarh district in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The devotees, mostly poor folk from neighboring villages, had gathered at the temple to partake of the feast and freebies being handed out when a gate under construction collapsed.

The dead were mostly children and women.

Stampedes at Hindu temples in India are not uncommon and often cause many deaths.

Poverty in Incredible India is so acute that huge crowds gather upon news of free food, clothes and other goodies.

Maybe, the Hindu God Ram was being merciful in killing these 65 people and sparing them the daily suffering that is the lot of countless poor Indians.

Hey, what was that noise?

Must be the wails of the bereaved victims singing that dirge Mera Bharat Mahaan.

(Suggested by SI blog reader  StrYngLad74)

My, my, how time flies.

Is it already a month since our last episode of Incredible India, those only-in-India reports.

Bet all you schmucks are exhibiting serious withdrawal symptoms over the lengthy hiatus.

Here we go, folks.

Homosexuality is as old as the hills and even the soporific Indian courts have lately, albeit belatedly, legalized it.

But Dilli door hai, na.

And no one bothered to tell the troglodytes at Aligarh Muslim University, located at Aligarh (not far from Delhi).

Recently, the Aligarh Muslim University suspended a senior faculty member after paid hands at a TV channel barged into his house and filmed him having consensual sex with a rickshaw puller.

No, we don’t know who was buggering whom. Please don’t ask.

Here’s an excerpt from the TOI story

An Aligarh Muslim University professor, on the verge of retirement, was suspended after some students set up cameras to catch him having consensual sex with a rickshaw-puller in his campus home, and sent the video film to university authorities. Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, reader and chairman of Modern Indian Languages at AMU, now says he won’t challenge his suspension and would voluntarily leave….

“Siras was captured on camera having sex with a rickshaw-puller. It’s a scandal that no institution of repute can overlook. Therefore he was placed under suspension on February 9 by the order of the VC, Prof P K Abdul Azis,” said AMU public relations officer Rahat Abrar.

The India Today account of the incident is even more disturbing and a must-read, gays oops guys.

(Suggested by SI blog reader Boopalan)

Yet another Only in Incredible India story, folks.

A policeman lies in agony on the road, his right leg cut off by a bomb hurled by a bunch of criminals who mistake him for another policeman they intend to attack.

Vetrivel, the seriously injured policeman in the state of Tamil Nadu, is bleeding and in profound pain.

Yet so many people standing nearby including two ministers make no effort to help the poor man.

By the time the watching pigs finally decide to do something, it’s too late.

Precious time has been wasted and the policeman dies a short while later.

Just another day in Incredible India.

Here, watch the below video.

Did someone say Mera Bharat Mahaan?

Folks, this is the 39th episode of Incredible India, your favorite source for Incredible news only from India.

Watch this sexciting video, which allegedly shows Andhra Pradesh Governor N.D.Tiwari in a compromising position (Unfortunately, it’s in Telugu, a language we’re not familiar with but the picture tells the ’story’).

The Raj Bhavan has denied Tiwari’s sexcapades.

Mera Bharat Mahaan.