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Question: if someone wanted to swathe you in cloth dipped in turmeric water and then bury you alive in a pit, what would you say? Awww, c'mon, it's only for a minute or so, and in the 400 years of this tradition, no one has died yet (they say). Actually, the participants on the sharp end (or is it in the deep end?) are typically young children, it being far too terrifying a procedure to subject adults to. They say it's completely consensual, and after all, if the gods are not appeased, who knows what might happen! Naturally, the police don't want to intervene, because no one is calling them to do so.

Hang on a minute, one of those little children is bound to place a call to her local police station or submit a complaint in writing if there is any problem, isn't she? The fact that her parents are making her submit to being buried alive by putting the fear of the gods into her is neither here nor there, is it?