Pictures from Varanasi, India (1 Viewer)

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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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#23
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I hate the fact that the family of deceased people give more importance to cremating the body near the river and dumping them at the banks rather than care about the environment and how it's becoming worse due to thos riligious fanaticism!
Ah, but one of the things I like about India is its honest rawness about humanity. Fact is, people die and decay. It shocks us to look at that because we live like the packaged meat under supermarket cellophane, totally removed from what really goes on in life behind the curtain.

People have died and decayed in rivers, underground, etc., for thousands of years. We like to believe when we take a dump or piss, it doesn't somehow end up in our drinking supply. Dream on.

Which isn't to say there aren't far more sanitary ways to handle all this by any means. But people are way too squeamish about the realities of human existence when confronted with it. It's hard enough to get people to talk about death, as a natural part of life, without it being taboo.
 
Apr 15, 2006
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#24
ßöмßäяðîëя;2847068 said:
This is a great thread.

Anyone wonder why I hate India?
Cos we steal your jobs! Muahahha
Ah, but one of the things I like about India is its honest rawness about humanity. Fact is, people die and decay. It shocks us to look at that because we live like the packaged meat under supermarket cellophane, totally removed from what really goes on in life behind the curtain.

People have died and decayed in rivers, underground, etc., for thousands of years. We like to believe when we take a dump or piss, it doesn't somehow end up in our drinking supply. Dream on.

Which isn't to say there aren't far more sanitary ways to handle all this by any means. But people are way too squeamish about the realities of human existence when confronted with it. It's hard enough to get people to talk about death, as a natural part of life, without it being taboo.
I haven't travelled around the world, but I'm pretty sure India is not the only place to experience the rawness of humanity.
 

Gamaro

The Arabian Knight
Aug 6, 2007
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#25
It's really pathetic that some people jude a country like India with over 1 billion population by seeing only few pics.

There are cities and places in India which are more civilized than many places in Europe for example.

India has its disadvantages just like any country has,but TBH there are some good things in India that can't be found anywhere else in the world.
 

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