Show hindus agonizing penance an extraordinary scene was witnessed in calcutta recently when a small trolly studded with rows of iron spikes on which a hindu was lying at full length was being pulled through the streets A large crowd was foll following oming inquiries elicited the information that the man was mas doing penance and was on his way to the temple of tile goddess kali at kalig hat the hindu I 1 lad ad been several days on the journey and was in a terrible condition the spikes which numbered about were quite fuite sharp and the man wore more only a loincloth loin cloth ile he must have been suffering acute pain from the fact that his body was bruised and lacerated all over as a of lying on the nails neither the police nor any passerby passer by made tiny any attempt to stop the self imposed torture |