Two Great Tastes...

Dozens of rural women in the southwestern district of Kapilvastu have stripped naked and ploughed their fields in a desperate attempt to appease the rain god following continuous draught.
Reports said some 50 naked women of Kapilvastu village went to their fields in the dead of the night on Saturday, ploughed the parched field and planted paddy, symbolically. The ‘all-women show’ went on along with reciting of prayers for rain.
Reports said the women made high-pitch cries, which is part of the ritual, as they worked in their fields.
“This is a tradition. We go to the fields without any clothes on and carry out the ritual to appease the gods for rain,” a
participating woman told the BBC Nepali Service.
Women in Kapilvastu villages had done such rituals in previous years as well after continuous drought.

That Go Great Together...

An Indian man born with two penises wants to get one of them removed so that he can marry, a report said Saturday.
The 24-year-old businessman checked himself into a city hospital for the operation after having lived all his life with the rare condition medically known as penile duplication or diphallus, the Times of India said. "It is an extremely rare condition. More so because two fully functional penises is unheard of even in medical literature," the newspaper quoted a doctor as saying. "In the more common form of diphallus, one organ is rudimentary." The doctor said the operation would be extremely complicated as surgeons would have to ensure that the retained organ was fully functional. The report did not name the patient or hospital to protect the man's identity. The developmental abnormality is found in one in 5.5 million men and only around 100 such cases have been reported since the first one in 1609, the newspaper said.