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India: The Land of Miracles

December 11, 2006

Recently when I went to attend the marriage ceremony of a friend of mine, I saw an amazing live statue.

As you can see in the pic appended on the left, the guy’s sitting on nothing ) Don’t let your religious beliefs run a riot. Its occurence is more attributable to science than spirituality…

But still its SUPERB and I think at this point in time a caption like ” India: The Land of Miracles…” is very apt.

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