DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
1. A village council in Bihar banned women from using
cell phones, saying it encourages them to have affairs.
2. Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar and his daughter
Anoushka Shankar were nominated for Grammy Awards
in the same category.
3. Rajan Zed, the self-styled Hindu statesman, asked
Lindsay Lohan to apologize for her remarks against
gypsies.
4. Artists in Bihar painted images of Hindu deities on
more than 100 trees to keep them from being cut down.
5. Rajan Zed asked the Bihar artists to apologize for
painting deities on trees.
Compiled and partly written by Indian humorist MELVIN DURAI, author of the novel Bala Takes the Plunge.
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