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Show I Orir-ntals Are Experts in the Art of Starving Selves) Recently a Yogi ascetic entombed' himself in Rislii Kesh, a holv plnca In the northwest 1'nited Provinces of India. After -15 days those wlth-l out were to listen for the saeredl word "Out," whereupon he was to ho, released and given fruit juice. On1 the forty-fifth day they heard a'falntl "Om" and carried out the lustruc-' tiona During all that time the as-! cetic had taken neither food nor1 water. J Orientals seem to be experts in1 this art of starving. Jatlndranathj Das, one of sixteen persons arrested' in 1029 in the Lahore conspiracy, died in prison after a hunger strike of sixty-one days. Taha Hussein, who tried to assassinate the Egypl tian prime minister, Siki Pasha, "and' was condemned to seven years' hard labor, died in 1032, after fasting fifty days. |
