[India News] They Rapin' Everybody Up In Here: Swiss Tourist Gang-Raped

South Asia a great place to visit. I prefer South India over the North as it bit less congested and less intense. But the place to visit is Sri Lanka. It is amazing over there.

 

I recommend Kerala and Tamil Nadu for sightseeing.

People perceive India as some downtrodden, rape-infested land, but visit the South. People are educated and much more civilized than the North.

A lot of sights to be seen in the South.

 

Sri Lanka is definitely on my list. Where specifically did you visit there?

 

Better ones here.

 

Serious question. I wonder how dirty/clean that water is

 

Meh, after seeing those pics? I think I'll pass

 

Don't let ignorant hateful people affect your view of an entire country. There is a lot of poverty in India but that is someone taking the very worst of the worst to put down people. It's like showing mafia killings and homeless people ****ting on subways as a representation of America.

 

i understand. but overall india is worth seeing even for its flaws. it's a very unique country that has many pretty areas also.

 

Nope been to India 3 times and most of it is a **** hole. Doesn't mean there are not great people from India but as a country it has serious issues that go beyond many other nations.

 

Oh NewYorker with the zinger!

 

What in my statement is wrong?

Are the poor treated well in India?

Are women treated well in India?

The last I looked India was in the bottom five of the world in the treatment of women and the poor by most indexes.

 

I am still laughing about the man with the stick chasing you and the infestation of bed bugs.

 

I am hearing about Goa, nice beaches there....

 

Yeah I will say this... India in unforgettable.

 

Raped his army.

He never saw that coming.

 

Science and history affords us that perspective. Burning and altering books is serious business

But let's not kid ourselves. Dig up the skulls of different places and random times from one to 1 million years , nd you can't eyeball much difference between them.

 

Only good thing to come out of Goa is Goa Trance! :grin:

 

I hope you can find your Exotic Marigold hotel some day or stop trying.

 

Open defecation in India is practiced by roughly 500 million people. Using the restroom in India can get you raped or killed.

[rQUOTEr]Why do millions of Indians defecate in the open?

It's early morning and local commuters are queuing up for tickets at the Kirti Nagar railway station in the Indian capital, Delhi.

Along the tracks, another crowd is gathering - each person on his own, separated by a modest distance. They are among the 48% of Indians who do not have access to proper sanitation.

Coming from a slum close-by, they squat among the few trees and bushes along the railway tracks and defecate in the open.

To many, this is a daily morning ritual despite the hazards of contracting diseases such as diarrhoea and hepatitis.

It can be even more hazardous for women since each time a woman uses the outdoors to relieve herself, she faces a danger of sexual assault.

Recently two teenage girls from the state of Uttar Pradesh were gang-raped and found hanging from a tree after they left their village home to go to the toilet. Their house, like hundreds of millions of others in the country, did not have any facilities.

'No privacy'

A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report says more than half a billion people in India still "continue to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or in open water bodies, with no dignity or privacy".

Access to sanitation is a challenge that India's politicians want to tackle - both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised to put an end to open defecation in their 2014 general election manifestos.

During his campaign, Narendra Modi, BJP's newly-elected prime minister, promised: "Toilets first, temples later".

And former rural development minister Jairam Ramesh of the Congress party had stressed that "practicing good hygiene is as important as performing good puja" (act of worship in Hinduism).

India's government offers cash incentives to subsidise construction of toilets. It has also initiated hygiene and sanitation awareness campaigns, such as the "No Toilet, No Bride" slogan launched in the state of Haryana in 2005, urging brides to reject a groom if he did not have a lavatory at home.

The Gates Foundation too has offered grants to create latrines that are not connected to water, sewer or electricity and to improve the treatment of human waste.

'Lack of focus'

The exhibits at a recent "toilet fair" organised by the Foundation in Delhi included a lavatory with a photovoltaic roof-top that powers a reactor breaking down excrements into fertiliser, and another one which came equipped with an automatic sterilisation system and a generator turning the moisture into water.

Apart from poverty and lack of lavatories, one of the reasons often cited to explain open defecation in India is the ingrained cultural norm making the practice socially accepted in some parts of the society.

"Just building toilets is not going to solve the problem, because open defecation is a practice acquired from the time you learn how to walk. When you grow up in an environment where everyone does it, even if later in life you have access to proper sanitation, you will revert back to it," says Sue Coates, chief of Wash (water, sanitation and hygiene) at Unicef.

India will be free of open defecation only when "every Indian household, every village, every part of Indian society will accept the need to use toilets and commit to do so", she says.

Professor at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology Meera Mehta says the strategies implemented so far may not have the expected impact because of a "lack of focus".

"With the right policies and political attention, India can be free from open defecation within 10 years.[/rQUOTEr]

 

Fascinating! Well if you will excuse me, I have to drop a deuce in the gutter and do some opportune raping while the neighbor girl pisses in the weeds.