Show hindus hindu agonizing penance an extraordinary scene was w alt it hessed in calcutta recently when a small trolly studded with rows 0 of iron spikes pikes on which a hindu was waa lying at full length was being pulled through the streets A large crowd was following inquiries elicited the Wor information mation that the man was doing penance and was on his way to the temple of the goddess kali kail at kalig hat the hindu lad been several days on the journey and was in a terrible condition the spikes which numbered about were quite sharp and the man wore only a loincloth loin cloth lie he must have bare been bean suffering acute pain from the fact that his body was bruised and lacerated all over as a result of lying on the sharp nalla nails neither tho the police nor any passerby passer by made any attempt to stop the self imposed torture |