Archive for 'Miracles- Rational View'

Report from Bankura

By Biplab Das This man is Atikur Rahman. We, the members of ‘Science and Rationalists association of India’ caught him red handed on 15th March when he was selling the kavacha named ‘METAL TABLET’ in Bankura town.He claims that this ‘metal tablet’ made of a mixture of eight different types of metal has miraculous curing power. He [...]

PARANORMAL EXPOSED! : Shocking Investigation Reports of Paranormal Activity Claims

Bestseller Since 1985, by Prabir Ghosh Click here to purchase this book from Flipkart, no card required; cash on delivery; no postage charge Did fleets of airplanes and ships get lost in a mysterious zone, the Bermuda Triangle? Why and how did an idol of Kali break the ground and emerge from inside the earth? [...]

Current issue (January 2011) of Aamra Yuktibadi published

‘আমরা যুক্তিবাদী’ পত্রিকার বইমেলা সংখ্যা (জানুয়ারী ২০১১) প্রকাশ করা হল। সংগ্রহ করার জন্য যোগাযোগ করুন- ১। দে’জ পাবলিশিং, ১৩ বঙ্কিম চ্যাটার্জি স্ট্রিট, কলকাতা ৭০০ ০৭৩। ২। পাতিরাম, কলেজ ষ্ট্রিট, কলকাতা। ৩। কলকাতা বইমেলায় ‘আমরা যুক্তিবাদী’-র ষ্টল। Click here to download আমরা যুক্তিবাদী – বইমেলা সংখ্যা (জানুয়ারী ২০১১) ডাউনলোড করার জন্য এখানে ক্লিক করুন। পূর্ববর্তী সংখ্যাগুলো [...]

TABLES TURNED FOR WITCH DOCTORS OF PURULIA… thanks to Madhusudan Mahato

Click here to enlarge and read the news in Bengali Courtesy: Anandabazar Patrika

Sera Juktibadi Sankalan (A Collection of Essays by Rationalists)

শুভ-সংবাদ! ছাপা চলছে — সেরা যুক্তিবাদী সংকলন– ৬০০ পৃষ্ঠার বই দে’জ পাবলিশিং — দাম ৪০০ টাকা — পাবেন এবার বই মেলায়।

TRAGEDY AT SABARIMALA: THE MIRACLE OF MAKARA JYOTHI

Dear friends More than 100 pilgrims were killed and as many seriously injured at Sabarimala Hills on the night of 14 January 2010 when they were returning after witnessing the ‘miracle’ of Makara Jyothi. The so-called miracle is a government sponsored magic and this was exposed by the rationalists in Kerala in the early 1980s. [...]

BOOK FAIR at SONARPUR, 24Pgs south, near Kolkata

Sonarpur Book Fair: November 25 to December 5, 2010

Prabir Ghosh in India Today Regarding Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka

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Girl child killed / Sacrificed as a tantrik ritual in Yeyyadi Mangalore

Mangalore, December 17: In a macabre incident, Priyanka, a three year old girl child studying at KPT Anganavadi was killed in an apparent sacrifice as part of a black-magic ritual under Kadri Police station limits on Friday, December 17. Priyanka’s body was discovered from a plantation at Sharbatkatte, near Yeyyadi. She was the daughter of [...]

PM of a secular nation wishing Sathya Sai Baba a long life

By Dr Neha I always used to feel proud during my childhood when we were taught in school that India is a “Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic, Republic” without even knowing the real meaning of these big words. Probably even the school teachers didn’t know the actual meaning. They just taught what was written in the [...]

Statement of Prabir Ghosh in an Australian News Website

25 November 2010 | 10:56:06 PM | Source: AAP The Science and Rationalists’ Association of India, which fights against superstition in India, says women accused of being witches are sometimes stripped in public and some are gagged and burnt to death. “Villagers believe in witchcraft often due to helplessness. Absence of medical facilities forces them [...]

Current issue (November 2010) of Aamra Yuktibadi published

‘আমরা যুক্তিবাদী’ পত্রিকার নভেম্বর ২০১০ সংখ্যাটি প্রকাশ হয়েছে। সংগ্রহ করার জন্য যোগাযোগ করুন- দে’জ পাবলিশিং ১৩ বঙ্কিম চ্যাটার্জি স্ট্রিট, কলকাতা ৭০০ ০৭৩ Click here to download

PRESS RELEASE by Science and Rationalists’ Association of India on the present problem of misconception related to sexual organs

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Rationalists investigate ‘supernatural’ fire – incidents in a house in Budbud, Burdwan

Please click on the images to enlarge and read. Courtesy: Sangbad Pratidin, Pratyahik Khabar, Sanmarg, November 11, 2010

Witch-hunting in India

By Santosh Sharma Courtesy: Chhapte Chhapte Uphar