Man avoids washing for 35 years in order to father son A fire bath helps kill germs and infection in the body. Kailash "Kalau" Singh An Indian man who fathered seven daughters has not washed for 35 years in an apparent attempt to ensure his next child is a boy, newspapers report. Kailash "Kalau" Singh replaces bathing and brushing his teeth with a "fire bath" every evening when he stands on one leg beside a bonfire, smokes marijuana and says prayers to Lord Shiva, according to the Hindustan Times. "It's just like using water to take a bath," Kalau was reported as saying. "A fire bath helps kill germs and infection in the body." Kalau, 63, from a village outside the holy city of Varanasi, outraged his family by refusing to take a ritual dip in the river Ganges even after his brother died five years ago. "I still don't remember how it all began," he said in Saturday's edition of the paper. "I just know it started about 35 years ago." Kalau's hygiene regime has taken its toll on his professional life. The grocery store that he used to own closed when customers stopped shopping there due to his "unhealthy personality" and he now tills fields near Varanasi airport. Kalau, who wears two pullovers all through the Indian summer, said his pledge not to wash was a commitment to the "national interest." "I'll end this vow only when all problems confronting the nation end," he said. But his neighbours in the village of Chatav said there was another reason for Kalau's washing boycott. "A seer once told Kalau that if he does not take a bath, he would be blessed with a male child," a man called Madhusudan told the paper. Most Indians prefer sons, who are typically regarded as breadwinners, while girls are seen as a burden because of the matrimonial dowry demanded by a groom's family and the fact that their earnings go to their husband's family.
umm, his wife probally thinks twice before having sex with him, and it is probally the reason why he has no son
Is that a world record? How are you going to have a son when you can't even get your wife to have sex with you. Is his wife still even with him? I can't almost smell him...yuck!!!
if he has had the same wife for 35 years and still wants a child with the same wife, the child is sure to come out mentally disabled one way or another. Simply because as a woman ages, her meiosis mechanism starts to breaks down, at an exponential rate (I won't further explain this... or some people may just fall asleep). ---- in other words, he better have a second wife to father this son, unless he wants a retarded son.
I read from a feng shui website saying if a man doing laundry will kinda get less fortune or lose fortune luck.....hmm
I can stand without shower for 2 days max, after that I get irritated for a shower... Damn...this guy is one heck of a nut and use some bloody excuse to cover it up <_<
No...max is one day, and just because I went out overnight...dang, I was really annoyed and pissed by then...
I can't go a day without a shower. I often take 2 a day even if I don't need it. I honestly can't even begin to imagine what this guy must smell or look like. I'm surprised he doesn't have any major health issues from this. This seems like one of the rare incidents where following tradition ends up being a burden. It might be cheaper/easier to go buy/adopt a son instead.
