To the rescue: Nude daughters, and more

last updated 8 January 2015

To the rescue: Nude daughters

Farmers in the drought-ravaged Indian state of Bihar have ordered their unmarried daughters to plow their fields in the nude, in hopes of triggering the overdue monsoon. The theory, according to Upendra Kumar, a councilman in the remote village of Banke Bazaar, is that the sight of so much exposed female flesh “would get the weather gods badly embarrassed, who in turn would ensure bumper crops by sending rains.”

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