Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Midnapore, West Bengal, India

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

With Tim Vanhamel I made a Noise performance about ‘Thaipoosam’, a Hindi religious festival I attended in the Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
(31 August 2005)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3377 births, 3944 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2079 other events about 5733 people in 6441 places until today.

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Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

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Saturday 9th of October 1920 (x) — Feral girls Amala and Kamala are rescued from a wolves' den by the rector of the local orphanage Joseph Amrito Lal Singh.
French surgeon Serge Aroles concluded in his book 'L'Enigme des enfants-loup' that the rector's story was a hoax.
Wednesday 21st of September 1921 (-) — Feral girl Amala dies of a kidney infection.
Thursday 14th of November 1929 (-) — Feral girl Kamala dies of a kidney infection.