The sadhus in Pushkar are pissed off. Pushkar is one of the holiest places in India, and every year thousands and thousands of pilgrims travel, walk, crawl several weeks their way to this tiny little town in order to bathe in the holy lake during the full moon festival. There is only one small little problem: there is no water in the lake.
Due to years of drought, the water levels have been decreasing steadily, until the water became so polluted that the government of India decided to clean it up, for the neat sum of 60 MILLION USD. But how do you clean a lake, you might wonder? Well, according to the Indian way, you simply empty it of all the water, and dig it out. The logic of this is completely lost on me, but then again I spend my days with my arm up a cow's arse.
There are a few pools with water left along the former lake shores, but apparently the sadhus simply cannot share the same water as a woman, so they feel cheated out. They have now stated an ultimatum: if there is no water in the lake after two more days, they will leave. The world is holding it's breath.
I heard that yesterday! I cannot believe they took the water out of the lake. Apparently, according to legend, the lake is endlessly deep. Brahma turned it into a lake when he dropped a lotus flower there. The Brahman temple in Pushkar is the only Brahman temple in India.
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