Folks, time to wear your seat-belts. Here comes another instalment of Incredible India, with those Only in India stories.
* A poor woman admitted to a government hospital in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh sold her new-born baby for $125. Cheap, na. In the last two years, we have seen about 28 or 29 Tamil movies in theatres here. Each time, we’ve spent over $100 (tickets, gas, toll, lunch, snacks et al). Just think, we could have purchased a Kaurava camp of 100 babies with that money. 
Do you think in India they have a Buy 1 Baby, Get 1 Baby Free scheme.
Think we’re making this up. Read this excerpt on the sale of the baby:
“My financial position is really bad,” a distraught looking Rajitha (20) who could not afford the Rs 2,000 hospital fee said from her bed at the government area hospital in Kothagudem in Khammam district today.
* Yet another Indian dad has been nabbed for allegedly raping his daughter. This time, the helpless girl was four-years-old. Continue reading »
Recent Comments