In this day and age, there are very few things all Indians can agree on, but one of them is this: India is a strange land.
Maybe, some claim, our ancient sages invented the zero only so we could measure how much sense the world around us would make thousands of years later. From a diverse range of oddness that perhaps only our melting pot of a country can provide, from lawbreakers and lawmakers, seminars and simians, we’ve found subjects for a series of stories that happen only in India: some funny, some horrifying, and several that manage to be both.
CRIME PATROL
BEWARE, THESE PINK ₹2,000 notes would have passed off as real, but closer inspection revealed they were issued by the ‘Bhartiya Manoranjan Bank’ and ‘Children Bank of India’. This stopped being funny after a few ATMs in Delhi-NCR, Haryana, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh dispensed the play notes. Turns out, they are easily available at toy stores. So much for demonetization putting a stop to counterfeit currency. Source: thehindu.com
IMAGINE THIS: a chain-snatcher’s wedding, his brethren, India’s top muggers and thieves, as guests, with 20 policemen merely keeping watch on the festivities. The news of Toufiq Shah’s wedding in Ambivali, Thane, spread like wildfire. The police were left to defend their dubious decision of not arresting Shah right then (but the next day). Of course, they seemed to ignore the fact that his bride was underage—she’s 15.
Source: indiatvnews.com
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة April 2017 من Reader's Digest India.
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