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We come across people who go out of their way to help people in life. But, Mohammad Sharafat Hussain has been going of his way to help people, even in their death.   For the past 20 years, Hussain has been helping the people of Mumbai, including the Mumbai Police and the municipal authorities to recover dead bodies from drains and wells. In fact, so dedicated he is to this job that he has also, over time, become the man for the job, when authorities need bodies retrieved. From entering narrow gutters deftly, to jumping into canals, Kallu, as Hussain is popular known as, has been to the filthiest and dreariest of places in his lifetime, in search of bodies. Even the putrid stench that stays long after he is out of the area, does not keep him from doing his job; one which most cannot even imagine doing.  Over the years, Kallu is said to have retrieved over 200 bodies from Mumbai's Mithi River. Talking about the amount of practice it takes to g...

Kongka La Pass — The Home of the Inhabited The Himalayas, the land of mountains and hills, finds its mention in the most serene and picturesque destinations of India. Many people tired of their mundane life seek to enjoy a few weeks of bliss in the lap of this land. They wish to explore and capture some of the rarest and panoramic moments that they could cherish for the entire lifetime to come. But, can this supposedly enthralling journey turn into something very unprecedented? Maybe or maybe not! There are infinite numbers of galaxies in this great universe, one being our Milky Way. In this galaxy alone, there are over 200 billion stars. Are we the only ones that survive?   Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s) or extraterrestrial objects have always fascinated mankind. The curiosity to know about the other life has made the area around Kongka La Pass quite mysterious. Kongka La Pass is a low ridge, disputed pass that bifurcates the Indian and the Chinese ...