[INDOLOGY] standards at the BBC

[Jonathan Silk]

In what is otherwise a rather normal BBC article about pollution in the
Ganges (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28112403), we come across this
spectacular explanation for cremation in Varanasi, namely that

According to the Hindu faith, anyone cremated in Varanasi is freed from
Moksha, the cycle of life and death, if part of their cremated body is
placed in the river as an offering.

As the lovely expression I learnt from "If I ran the zoo" has it, I almost
swallowed my gum.

file this under 'new lows department'

jonathan

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J. Silk
Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden
Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
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