"Bharat" certainly seems to be languishing in the 16 the century while "India" continues making rapid strides towards glory and grandeur in the 21st century.......
In an incident right out of the "dark ages"; a gaggle of both men and women villagers forcefully detained a police team that was trying to enter Ganjam district's (Orissa or then should I say Odisha) Nua Gochhabadi village (some 80 kms or so away from Berhampur for more than eight hours on May 24; 2016.......
They then compounded their numerous and unlawful/criminal follies/shenanigans by squatting on the Belaguntha-Bhubaneswar highway for several hours thereby bringing all vehicular movement on the same to a complete standstill for several hours.......
And pray what was the reason behind this extreme and seemingly insane behaviour; a supposedly "cleansing and redeeming" ritual being performed by a Nayagarh based self styled and appointed "tantrik" who was allegedly "exorcising" the "cursed" village of a spell wreaked upon it by a "sorcerer" that had supposedly caused the untimely deaths of 8 menfolk belonging to the very same village within a span of little over a month or so........
Thoroughly overwhelmed and outnumbered by the burgeoning and constantly swelling mass of humanity; the hapless cops/men in khaki's torturous ordeal only ended when the sub collector; district magistrate and other senior officials reached the spot and managed to somehow or the other convince the gullible villagers that the deaths of the eight men were not the handiwork of a sorcerer as suspected by them but caused by various illnesses that had not been cured in time.........
A calamitous; propitious and seemingly explosive situation was thereby dissipated and brought under control thanks to sanity and reason prevailing over superstition and utterly nonsensical beliefs; cases have since been booked against persons unknown and local police officials are trying their utmost to identify and isolate those self appointed "leaders" who were at the helm of this sordid and unsavoury imbroglio.......
In an incident right out of the "dark ages"; a gaggle of both men and women villagers forcefully detained a police team that was trying to enter Ganjam district's (Orissa or then should I say Odisha) Nua Gochhabadi village (some 80 kms or so away from Berhampur for more than eight hours on May 24; 2016.......
They then compounded their numerous and unlawful/criminal follies/shenanigans by squatting on the Belaguntha-Bhubaneswar highway for several hours thereby bringing all vehicular movement on the same to a complete standstill for several hours.......
And pray what was the reason behind this extreme and seemingly insane behaviour; a supposedly "cleansing and redeeming" ritual being performed by a Nayagarh based self styled and appointed "tantrik" who was allegedly "exorcising" the "cursed" village of a spell wreaked upon it by a "sorcerer" that had supposedly caused the untimely deaths of 8 menfolk belonging to the very same village within a span of little over a month or so........
Thoroughly overwhelmed and outnumbered by the burgeoning and constantly swelling mass of humanity; the hapless cops/men in khaki's torturous ordeal only ended when the sub collector; district magistrate and other senior officials reached the spot and managed to somehow or the other convince the gullible villagers that the deaths of the eight men were not the handiwork of a sorcerer as suspected by them but caused by various illnesses that had not been cured in time.........
A calamitous; propitious and seemingly explosive situation was thereby dissipated and brought under control thanks to sanity and reason prevailing over superstition and utterly nonsensical beliefs; cases have since been booked against persons unknown and local police officials are trying their utmost to identify and isolate those self appointed "leaders" who were at the helm of this sordid and unsavoury imbroglio.......
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