1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 2. Is there a Soul? - S. Jyothsna Rani 7 3. The Hypno-therapy controversy: Two letters to Shyam Manav 9 4. Exposed 5000 Babas, mantriks, tantriks spiritualists & mediums - Outlook 11 5. The.Myth of AJpha, Beta & Theta consciousness - Barry Beyerstein 11 6. Homeopathy is a Science claims a Homeopath - Vikram 28 7. Water with a memory? The Dilution Affair - Martin Gardner 29 8. Death Anniversary of a Rationalist Yogi - Gopalakrishnan P.V 38 9. Dr. Satwant Pasricha, Dr. lan Stevenson and their Reincarnation Stories - Ramakrishna Battacharya 39 10. Page-130 from Dharmakirti on Compassion & Rebirth - Ell Franco 39 11. Reincarnation Story Exposed - B. Premanand 41 12. Letter to Dr. Satwant Pasricha, dated 6-9-1993 42 13. Letter to Madan Lal Chandek by Dr. lan Stevenson dated 17-6-1980 43 14. Letter to Madan Lal Chandek by Dr. lan Stevenson dated 1-8-1980 43 15. Letter to Madan Lai Chandek by Dr. lan Stevenson dated 18-9-1980 44 16. Letter to Shantafamsingh Khojare.by Dr. lan Stevenson dt. 8-12-1996. 44 17. Letter to Dr. lan Stevenson by Warish Deshmukh dated 3-8-1996 44 18. Vastu-consciou& mayor takes charge, occupies old office - DH 46 19. Publishers address please - Jayatbandran R 46 20. Krishna Unconsciousness - Sudhir Kumar Patnaik 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 2. Doing it for Jesus - Margaret Bhatty 7 3. The Right Hemisphere: An Esoteric Closet - Fernando D. Saravi 12 4. Youth 'brainwashed' by religious sect missing - Deccan Herald 20 5. Medical Student Traced - Deccan Herald 21 6. Sai Baba's Cricket Connection - Anil Kumar 21 7. Sai Baba takes to Cricket - Anil Kumar 22 8. Sai Baba takes to Cricket - R. Jayachandran 23 9. Sai Baba takes to Cricket: Reply - B. Premanand 23 10. Why attack the god idea? - Dr. Ramendra 24 11. Parapsychology Fraud - M.T. Koshy 28 12. Wedding of the Pipal Tree! - Gopalakrishnan P.V 28 13. Uttara for Voodoo - Lalita Iyer . 30 14. Religion - Sudhir Kumar Patnaik 32 15. Mr. Papfs Perpetual Motion - Richard Feynman 32 16. The Fits of Divinity - Outlook 35 17. No God has Created Diamond Rings - Naganathan Ravikanth 35 18. Sai Baba does not Practice what he Preaches - B. Premanand 36 19. Diary of the Shakti Pat Members at Puttaparthi - Klear Problem 38 20. Reply to Naganathan Ravikant - B. Premanand 45 21. More Premanand's Wanted - Jayakrishna Sahu 46 22. 'Padmabhusan'to V.M. Tarkunde - R. Jayachandran 47 23. Devotion & Lust - Book released 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 2. Chief Justice enjoys too much power - Transfer as a weapon - Kuldip Nayar 4 3. Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation? Examining Stevenson's 'Most Impressive' Case - Leonard Angel 7 4. Towards An United Front by B. Premanand (ed.) Book Review - Margaret Bhatty 13 5. A Challetige to Astrologers and Predictors of the Future - Narendra Nayak 16 6. Damp Squibs of the Astrologers! - Narendra Nayak 17 7. You Deserve the National Award - Gerald Huber 18 8. Miracles and Mother Teresa: Part II - Margaret Bhatty 19 9. Therapeutic Touch: Tracing Back to Mesmer - George A. Ulett 23 10. Birth of a Deformed Girl Child - Rumours - Krishna Podder 26 11. Religion & Cults in our Everyday Life - B.B. Singh 29 12. Satya Sai Baba 1 know - Sudhir Kumar Patnaik 30 13. Voter's Awareness Campaign: Sharing an Experience - Dr. Sunanda Shet 31 14. Teak Throne for Sai Baba - P.V. Gopalakrishnan 36 15. Islamic Fundamentalism - A Bane or Boon for the Muslims - Md. Firozul Haque 37 16. Divine Monopoloy - S.A. Baseer 43 17. Healthy Skepticism - Tim Gorksi, M.D 43 18. Challenging Superstitions - Rahul Singh 45 19. In God's Court .. India Today 47 20. Sorabjee for Panel to go into misconduct by judges - Indian Express 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 2. Expose godmen through media, courts - Rahul Singh 4 3. Birth Gentenary of Kovoor colebrated - Deccan Her-ald 5 4. Science wins Battle Versus superstfticn - Mallarashtra Herald 6 5. Fuzzy Logic - Rahul Singh 7 6. Poster Child Clinic - Dr. Munish Raizada 8 7. POSTER: Kovoor's Birth Centenary Celebrated 9 8. A Visit with Uri Geller - Richard Feynman 9 9 Can Man Create Life? - Dr. Rajendra Nayak 12 10. Ouija in the Classroom - Larry Barrieau 13 11. A Crusade Against Human Sexuality: Part III - Margaret Bhatty 15 12. Excuse Us'O' Gullibles - Sudhir Kumar Patriaik 20 13. Experiences with ISKCON - Overseas 20 14. Spanish Police state they prevented mass suicide by Atma (Isis Holistic) Center cult - Herman de Tollenaere 22 15. Internet web site with Critical Information on Occultism open now - Herman de Tollenaere 23 16. Non-Smokers Right Day - P.V. Gopalakrishnan 24 17. HC Crackdown on Holy Pond - Srikrishna Podder 27 18. Fate of a Fate Reader - Srikrishna Podder 29 19. Human Right Education at Finnish Schools - Pekka Elo 29 20. The Atheist and the Avatar - Robert Goodman 34 21. HYPNOSIS - Dr. George A. Ulett 39
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 2. 14th IHEU Congress - Concessions to tindian Skeptic Members 3 3. Koran lnterpretations are not Reveiations - P.V. Gopalakrishnan 4 4. Present Day occultism, from the Celestine, prophecy to Heaven's gate Herman de Tollenaere 5 5. Hypno-Therapy controversy - H. K. Deshmukh & Prashant Sapate 15 6. Matrimonial 17 7. Homoeopathy Controversy - Dr. P.M. Bhargava Responds 8. Rahul Singh's Article & Rumours by Sai Baba Members - D. J. Buxey 18 9. Gullible's Travels - George A. Ulett M.D 22 10. Believing what We See, Hear and Touch - Rainer Wolf 24 11. Encounters: Report of The Committee of Concerned Citizens 37 12. Fake Encounters in Andhra Pradesh 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 2. Declaration of Indian Radical Humanist Association on Nuclear explosions in South Asia - Babu Gogineni 3 3. The Pursuit of Human Rights in a Multi-cultural World - Pekka Elo 5 4. Religion and Politics - Sudhir Kumar Patnaik 9 5. Modern Jesus to Exorcise Satan - P. V. Gopalakrishnan 12 6. Religious Jewish Men live on State Welfare & their Wives Earning - Internet 13 7. Acupuncture's Secrets Revealed: From Cult of Qi to Evidence-Based Acupuncture - George A. Ulett 13 8. Another Brazilian "healer" - James Randi 24 9. Police Reward Naxal for killing Four - Deccan Herald 25 10. Andhra cops turn criminal, govt in tight spot - R. Akhileshwari 25 11. Scientists Jealous About Godmen? - K. Prakash 27 12. Information Explosion: Consumers' Rights - Ramesh Kumar 29 13. Cargo Cult Science - Richard Feynman 30 14. Dr. Ian Stevenson, Sai Baba's Miracles and Reincarnation Stuff - B. Premanand 37 15. Tarksheel Society (Punjab): Conference 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 2. Editor of Sarita, under Attack - Paresh Nath 4 3. Sai Baba could not answer the questions of his Devotee! - Dr. P. V. Pillai 5 4. Dr. Satwant Pasricha and The Re-incarnation Stuff II: Life after death : It could be true, says expert - Deccan Chronicle 7 5. "It could be true" cannot be "It is true" - B. Premanand 9 6. Ian Stevenson Replies to Leonard Angel 10 7. Science vs. Supernatural - Kisan Mehta 1 4 8. Govt land sold to ashram as pvt. property - M. B. Maramkal 15 9. The Naidu Connection - Times of lndia 15 10. Science as Society - J. V. Narlikar 16 11. Hypno-therapy Controversy: Hypnosis Featured at TBS Meeting - Valerie Gray 19 12. Murder Attempt on Sudhir Kumar Patnaik 20 Petition to Chief Justice of India - Sudhir Kumar Patnaik 21 Petition to Director General (Crime Branch), Cuttack, Orissa 22 Letters to The Editor on Murder Attempt - Firuzul Haque & Sudhir Kumar Patnaik 23 Can Man Create Life? Reader says "No" - Shankaranarayan U. J. 24 13. Readers Write: The Truth on Baba - M. Ramdas and I. Dawood 25 Mr. Ramdas, You are Spreading False Rumours and not Truth - B. Premanand 26 14. What happened to us on 1.1.1986 when we went to Sai Baba 29 16. Rationalists held at Puttaparthi - The Hindu 29 Rationalist for Exposing 'Godmen' - Deccan Herald 29 Atheist performs 'Miracles' - Indian Express 30 Atheist's claim to Expose Sai Baba - Times of India 30 15. The Illegal Arrest: Press Release - B. Premanand 31 16. CJ of Calcutta HC demits office - The Hindu 38 17. Workshop on Hypnotism - Dr. Munish Raizada 39 18. Albert Schweitzer: A Humanist - Dr, Munish Raizada 40 19. Take Action against Printing Superstitious Leaflets - Siddarth Radheshyam 41 20. Telugu University Award for Mrs. Saraswati Gora for Promotion of Rationalism - Dr. Vijayam 42 21. Training Workshop on Explaining of Science behind Miracles - Sarjit Talwar 43 22. AIDS Awareness Campaign by Rationalists of Puniab - Sarjit Talwar 44 23. Blue Film using a Corpse - P. V Gopalakrishnan 45 24. For a Healing i ouch - A. V. Varghese . 46 25. Promoting Rationalism (Editorial) - Times of India 46 26. Magicaution - K. A. Ramakrishna Murthy 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 2. Now, there's a code of conduct for Judges - Rakesh Bhatnagar 9 3. That Judicial Temptation - Krishen Mahajan 10 4. Dalit judge's successor cleans chamber with Ganga water - Times of India 12 5. Where is Justice? - Khushwant Singh 12 6. Stop Harassing Taslima Nasreen - Prakriti Kumer 13 7. G.S. Rao, known Atheist and Educationalist dead 14 8. How Lies, Change Falsehood to Truth - Dr. N.C.T. Brito Babapulle 16 9 From Saint to Criminal - Heike Teruttis 16 10. Astrology Seems to Work - Nibu Jacob 22 11. Astrology. With and Without Planets: Both of them are Hollow - Madav Risbud 255 12. Scientists are Jealous II K, Prakash Evades Producing his Thesis 29 13. Homeopathy Controversy III Gurukula Mitra Retracts from proving his claims 30 14. Show me The Data - Edvard A. Hemmingsen 31 15. Letter to The Editor: 1) Guide Us - Dr. Dinesh Mishra 31 2) Nadi Astrology - Laxmidas Khatau 31 16. Reincarnation Stuff IV: 1) Rebirth - Some Clear Evidences - C. Damodara Menon 32 2) Rebirth - Sorne False Evidences - Nithya Chaithanya Yathi 35 17. Amma Daya Godman Arrested for Rape - Vikram 38 18. Readers Reactions: 1) Birth of A Deformed Girl Child - Dr. Munish Raizada 39 2) Miracles & Mother Teresa - Dr. Munish Raizada 39 Mother Teresa's Miracle Jayakrishna Sahu 40 In the Name of the Mother - Hubert Vaz 41 'He has been harassing us ...' 42 3) Pseudo-Secular Stink in your Editorial - Jayakriahna Sahu 43 4) Wasted 10 Precious Pages of IS - Jayakrishna Sahu 45 5) Indian Skeptic has an Open Mind - K.V. Dharmani 46 6) The Propagation of Superstitions by Media - Shankarnarayan U.J. 46 7) People like you teach me 'What is Truth' - R. Jayachandran 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 Does not Reflect our Views - Says Tribune 2 The IHEU Conference 2 6 Murders by Sai Baba on 6-6-1993 3 Marriages without Rituals 3 Humanist Organisations of Bihar condemn attempts to change the secular character of Education 4 2. Know our Members 1: Dr. P.M. Bhargava - Chandana Chakrebarti 4 3. Fellow seekers of the Truth - We have been sexually abused by Sai Baba - Sekaran 6 4. Prof. Abraham T. Kovoor: A Profile - M. Subba Rao 11 5. Book Review U.F.O's The Public Deceived Philip Klass - Hussain N.M 14 6. The True Colour of Modern Spiritual Gurus - Jayakrishna Sahu 15 7. Kripalu Maharaj: The Krishnavatar - Overseas 20 8. Letters to Editor: Questions & Answers on Godmen 26 9. Prof. Abraham T. Kovoor Birth Centenary Programme Celebrated at Mandya: A Report - Sidda Raju Kothathi 27 10. Curing Snake Bite by Touch - Dr. Munish Raizada 28 11. Anantapur Celebrates 120th Birthday of Periyar & Kovoor's Centenary - C. R. Ananda Rao 28 12. Relevance of Poriyar's work to India Today (1879-1973) - Mehul Kamdar 29 13. Stevenson, Satwant Pasricha & Reincarnation - Dr. Eli Franco Replies 34 14. A Case of Reincarnation: Re-examined - Joe Nickell 36 15. Sweet & Sour: The latest fad is Vastu - Khushwant Singh 39 16. This Superstitious World! - T.K. Balan 40 17. Blood on Statuette may not be hoax - Dhiman Chattopadhyay 41 18. Clairvoyant cures Cancer with Sati's Blessings - Labonite Ghosh 42 19. Miracle-seekers flock to special cows - Times of lndia 43 20. He summons Saturn with his Pooja - Monish Gangwani 44 21. 'Dabblers and quacks can cause a great deal of har' - Vithat C. Nadkarni 45 22. Inspiration to Others - S. Baseer 46 Faith Smart 46 23. Exposing Fraud Sadhus - Shruti Prakash 46 24. Holy Men fled with God and Money - P. V Gopalakrishnan 47
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 The Fight against the Mafia Raj 2 2. Dr. Satwant Pasricha, Ian Stevenson and Rebirth Stuff. H.N. Banerji, Rajasthan University and Parapsychology - Dr. A.T. Kovoor 4 3. Our Investigation "Betting on Cricket" is Proved True - B. Premanand 8 Corruption in Cricket Confirmed - Indian Express 8 4. Investigate Potta Retreat Ministry - R. S. Cooper 9 5. Much ADO about Nothing: Curing Through Prayer - Gopatakrishnan P.V. 10 6. Hypno Therapy Controversy - Sreenivas Jodavula 20 You are Feeling very, very Sleepy - David Concar 20 7. Sai Baba's Empty Promises "Why Fear when I am Here" leads to 9 Suicides - B. Premanand 24 8. ISKCON Gurus in Sex Scandals - Awani Kumar 28 Revolt against ISKCON Gurus over Sex Scandals - Times of India 28 9. Touch Therapy Critic Hits Nerve - Gina Kolata 29 10. Experiences of a Devotee from Overseas about Kripalu Maharaj and his Raas Leela 31 11. Buxey Responds: Confesses his Mistake - D.J. Buxey 41 Sorcars try it, and it happens - Abhijit Majumder 42 'Milk Miracle' continues in NY - Sunday Times 43 12. Miracle Man or Petty Magician? Will the real Sai Baba please stand up - Sunday 45 13. DD Director Scuttles issue - Deccan Chronicle 47
1. Contents Editor's Page - Rationalist Conference 3 Railway Fraud 3 2. Astrologers Fail to Predict the winning Candidates - Dr- Dinesh Mishra 4 3. On the Truth's Trail - S.A. Baseer 4 4. Hypnosis: A Fact Sheet - Lewis Jones 5 5. P.V. Gopalakrishnan Awarded a Junior Fellowship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development 8 6. Sought Treasure; Brought Trouble! - P.V. Gopalakrishnan 8 7. Book Review: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, A Man of Destiny of India - E.P. Menon 9 8. A Photograph of Monkey creating sensation in Hyderabad - Vikram 9 9. Yoga is beneficial - P.B. Danish 10. Why Women flock to Godmen? And other Questions - N.J. Francis 10 11. How to bring Change? Question by Miss. R. Sahani 12 12. The Miracle of 3 Lanterns burning continuously without oil for 20 years - N. Vidya 12 13. Celestial Fire-works - Dr. Munish Raizada 13 14. Are my Articles, copies from other sources? - Dr. Umesh Patri 13 15. The Sai Baba Cassette - David L. Kent 14 16. Thinking the Unthinkable - MargeretBhatty 15 17. Sai Baba's Love - B. Premanand 19 18. All Names are Mine and All Forms are mine. Your worship to any of your chosen God, reaches Me - Satya Sai Baba 20 19. Sai Baba talks to Newspaper Editors - S. Anil Kumer 22 20. Satya Sai speaks out - Sarosh Bena 23 21. Devil Quotes the Scriptures - Dr. N. C. T. Brito Babepulie 26 22. The Heart of Sai - Firoza Dharmapala 26 23. Prime Minister Vajpayee visits Sai Baba - S. Anil Kumar 29 24. Vajpayee to open Hi-Tech City in Hyderabad - Deccan Herald 30 25. P.M. to attend Sai Baba's 73rd Birthday - S. Nagesh Kumar 31 26. Tight Security for PM at Puttaparthi - Deccan Chronicle 32 27. Police ready to nab "Saktipat" followers - S. Nagesh Kumar 32 28. Organisers pull out all stops for Sai Baba's 73rd Birth day - Vinita G. Singh 32 29. Devotees throng Puttaparthi - S. Nagesh Kumar 33 30. Japanese nationals Held - The Hindu 33 31. "Goof-ups" mar Reception to PM - R.J. Rajendra Prasad 34 32. Odd-man-out PM at Baba's Bash - Diptosh Majumdar 35 33. PM attends B'Day of Seer - Hindustan Times 36 34. Crowds throng Puttaparthi - The Hindu 37 35. It's Destination Puttaparthi for Citys with IT people - Vinita G. Singh 37 36 Why did PM, Naidu touch Sai Baba's feet, asks CPI - Times of India 38 37. Yogi & Commissar - Deccan Herald 38 38. Regarding: Sathya Sai Baba - Warren C. Pyke 39 39. Sai Baba - A Thug? - Warren C. Pyke 39 40. N. Om Dev's Non-Skeptic logic 41 41. Films on Origin of Universe, Galaxy, Solar System Earth, origin of life on Earth and Species wanted - Deepak J. Girme 45 42. Establish Mental Health Centres in every Panchayat - R. Jayachandran 46 43. Gandhi Versus Godse - Khushwant Singh 48
1. Contents & Editor's Page 2 Superstitions and Pseudo-science in Doordarshan 2 Murders in Sai Baba's Bedroom 3 2. Telekinesis' is not a science, but a myth - Dr. Rajendra Gere 4 3. What did the Cervakas mean by 'Sukham Jivet'? - Ramaktishne Bhattacharya. 4 4. Sakthimaan: The Newest God? - Margaret Bhatty 10 5. Brahma Reddy's way paves path to success - B.V. Redhakrishna Murthy & D. Panigrahi 14 6. Six Murders in Sai Baba's Bedroom: A Barrister's Comment - Warren C Pyke 17 7. A few thoughts on price rise and its disturbing dimensions - Dr. (Mrs.) Sunanda Shet 18 8. A question of Human Values - Dr. Rao V.B.J. Chellkani 23 9. Islam: Fascism & Terrorism in the Garb of Religion? - Firozul Haque 26 10 If an Advertisement is wrong, here's what you can do - The Advertising Standards Council of India 31 11. Here are some advertisements, would you put them right? - B. Premanand 35 12. Investigate the prediction advertisement in Manorama Year Book-1999 - Dr. Munish Raizade 36 13. News Papers and Magical Remedies Act - Gopelakrishnan P.V. 37 14. Dalits & Human Rights Violation - Siddherth Radheshyam 41 15. How not to get quacked! - Dr. Aniruddha Malpani 43 16. Cultural prerequisites of freedom - Dr. (Ms.) Kawaljeet 45 17. Skeptic - A.K.A. Rahiman 47
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