An Indian judge has summoned two Hindu gods to help resolve a 20-year-old property dispute.

Sunil Kumar Singh has placed notices in newspapers in the coal mining town of Dhanbad, in the eastern state of Jharkhand, asking gods Ram and Hanuman to appear in his court next week to present their arguments.

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The dispute is over ownership of a 1.4-acre plot in Dhanbad which adjoins a temple dedicated to Ram and another one dedicated to the monkey god Hanuman. Worshippers claim the land belongs to the gods but the priest, Manmohan Patnaik, insists that it is his.

Full Story: The Telegraph.

(via Hit and Run).

Why not? From MyDD: “And no one called right-wing bloggers “unscrupulous” when they did this to John Kerry in 2004. They opened the pandora’s box on this one, and they can ram their criticisms for me taking it up a notch upward and to the left.”

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Fabulous news! I can’t wait.

Shpongle is back, with a new album, ‘Nothing Lasts’ a reference to Terence Mckenna and one of their many influences, the imitable audio pioneers, Simon Posford & Raja Ram remind us not only the about the impermenance of life but also how to rewrite the ambient agenda with yet more spell binding music from their outer cosmos that is ‘Shpongle’. With sonic waves in a sea of synths, battalions of brazilian batucada beats, flamenco solo’s, piano solo’s, vocal soarings from Hari Om and trancey dubs this really is more music from the otherworld. A place of undefinable and indescribable beauty where all cultures collide, genres are rode over roughshot, and nothing is outlawed. For those that know them these will be sentiments they recognise and welcome as further evidence of Shongle’s reputation. To those that don’t, welcome to a new universe one with it’s own language and musical map, a place of beauty and impermenance.

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