B. Premanand is undoubtedly India’s
top debunker.
Over the last 50 years, the Rationalist,
in chapals and kurta, has investigated miracles and, after witnessing
1,146 of them, he has yet to see one he can’t duplicate through natural
methods.
As Convenor, Indian committee for
scientific investigation of claims of the paranormal (CSICOP), he leads
an army of skeptics in ongoing investigations of India’s many god-men.
He has been jailed and beaten, his life has been threatened, and his
car has been sabotaged.
India’s god-men wield great political
power, and many high government officials (including Presidents, Prime
Ministers and even Supreme Court justices) among their followers. Owing
their authority to the gullibility of their uncritical disciples, the
god-men have a vested interest in maintaining their aura of divinity.
But B. Premanand has been steadily chipping away at their empires. He
believes that it’s a noble task to keep frauds from flourishing, that
it’s the good fight and it can be fun too.
Right now he is living on borrowed
time, but his enthusiasm to connect people to scientific temper sees
no respite...
He is coming down to meet all of us
in Goa on the 19th and 20th of October 2007... Pls contact Somu (9822182466)
or me to join in an interaction to get fresh insights and be further
inspired with B Premanand...
Pls note that Premanand’s health
is frail and we will need to ensure that we give him time and space
to relax in betwen our interludes with him.
Pravin K. Sabnis (cell: 9422640141)
visit:
www.unlearningunlimited.blogspot.com
www.mondaymuse.blogspot.com
www.poems-pravinsabnis.blogspot.com
http://groups.google.com/group/scientific-temper
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