"Do You Want to Get Well?"
In 2010 thousands of people a day made their way to a dried-up and polluted lake in eastern India about 70 kilimetres south of Kolkata. There people immersed themselves in the sludge at the bottom of the lake, ‘miracle mud.’ People also drank water from the lake and took mud away with them. This followed a rumour that a man had been cured of liver cancer by dipping himself in this lake. Another man claims that his wife was cured of throat cancer after smearing her body with t