Table of Contents of Volume 3

Vol. 3 No. 1 May 1990

1.	Raja Bahadur Mansion Its Ghostly Past - Rafique Bagdadi	1
2.	Does the Freedom of Press mean Freedom to publish falsehood?  - B. Premanand	2
3.	The Fraud of Miracle Cures by the Pentecostal Church	3
4.	Report form Karnataka - Narendra Nayak	6
5.	Sssnake! - Indian Express	7
6.	Ready to Purchase - Narendra Nayak and B. Premanand	7
7.	Ghost in a Hotel? - Prakash Seernani	9
8.	Moving Spirits - Russell J. Foulds	10
9.	Critical Reading, Careful Writing and the Bermuda Triangle - Larry Kusche	16
10.	Bermuda Triangle, 1981 Model - Michael R. Dennett	18
11.	The Ten Commandments of Bertrand Russell - Brian Carr	32
12.	Reply: Does Pyramid Power Work?  - Sunita Banerjee	33
13.	Stemming the Rot - Margaret Bhatty	37

Vol. 3 No. 2 June 1990

1.	Carbon Dating Religious Myths - Margaret Bhatty	2
2.	St. Francis Xavier's Corpse and the Catholic Church - B. Premanand	6
3.	The Ghost Light - Narendra Nayak	7
4.	Floating Vessel of Kanakapura a Scientific Fact - Kiran	9
5.	Surat Astrologers Lose their Own Money - Kiran	10
6.	Equality in all Things?  - Kiran	10
7.	Mystery Hole in Ground - Herald	11
8.	Divine Logic!  - Kiran	11
9.	Why are Courts Afraid of the Tape Recorders and Videos	12
10.	Offering to God 	12
11.	Miracle Making - Kiran	12
12.	After Miracle Cure - Courtesy The Hindu	13
13.	An Alternative view - Margaret Bhatty	15
14.	Our President of India and the Godmen - B. Premanand	27
15.	Satya Sai Baba's Education on Moral Values System - B. Premanand	28
16.	Mataji Nirmala Devi and her Kundalini Awakening - B. Premanand	32
17.	Letters	39

Vol. 3 No. 3 July 1990

1.	The Scientist and The Occult - B. Premanand	2
2.	Parapsychology - Gayatri Murti	3
3.	Gerard Croiset: Investigation of the Mozart of "Psychic Sleuths" - Piet Hein Hoebens	9
4.	Croiset and Professor Tenhaeff: Discrepancies in Claims of Clairvoyance - Piet Hein Hoebens	20
5.	Edgar Cayce: The Slipping Prophet - James Randi	29
6.	Catching Geller in the Act - C. Eugene Emery, Jr.	35

Vol. 3 No. 4 August 1990

1.	National Council for Science and Technology Fellowship - B. Premanand	1
2.	The Nonpsychic Powers of Uri Geller - David Marks and Richard Kammann	2
3.	How not to test a Psychic: The Great SRI Mystery - Martin Gardner	11
4.	New Evidence in the Uri Geller Matter - James Randi	18
5.	Charlatanry - Biranchi Narayan Mishra	23
6.	The Land Of Mumbo Jumbo - Kiran	24
7.	People Crushed in a Religious Fair	24
8.	Racism Claims Another Life	25
9.	Supposed Witch Cruelly Killed	25
10.	A Critical Analysis of H. Schmidt's Psychokinesis Experiments - C. E. M. Hansel	27
11.	Einstein and ESP - Martin Gardner	34
12.	Revised Version - Kiran	37
13.	Hiccups to Krishna - Kiran	37
14.	A Second Einstein ESP Letter - Martin Gardner	38

Vol. 3 No. 5 September 1990

1.	Nostradamus Prophecies are Meaningless - B. Premanand	2
2.	Prophecy: The Search for Certainty - Charles J. Cazeau	3
3.	Nostradamus: The Prophet for All Seasons - James Randi	13
4.	The Modern Revival of Nostradamitis - Piet Hein Hoebens	20
5.	Nostradamus' 'California Quake': A Lesson from Orson Welles - Al Seckel	26
6.	Further Comments on Schmidt's PK Experiments - Ray Hyman	28
7.	Produce Proof for your Claims Dr. Thimmappa! - B. Premanand	35
8.	Swallowing Snakes not a Yogic Feat - B. Premanand	38

Vol. 3 No. 6 October 1990

1.	Ram Janma-Bhomi and Babri Masjid Issue - B. Premanand	2
2.	Satanic Messages in Rock Music if Played Backward? - Zen Harris	3
3.	Backward Masking and Other Backward Thoughts about Music - Tom McIver	5
4.	The Barcode Beast - Michael Keith	19
5.	Satan in Rock Music - B. Premanand	23
6.	The Day of the Possessed - Amicha	25
7.	Eyes of Stone - Satadal S. Bhattacharya	32
8.	Dargah of Shah Sharafuddin in Amroha and the Scorpions Who Do Not Sting - B. Premanand	33
9.	Calling all spirits I - Harry Edwards	34
10.	Letter - Tushar J. Swadia	39

Vol. 3 No. 7 November 1990

1.	Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic. What is India?  - B. Premanand	2
2.	Mrityu-Yatra - K. N. Balgopal	4
3.	Is This God?  - B. Premanand	6
4.	Two Women die as Dome Collapses	8
5.	Global Sai Baba Conference	9
6.	Letter to Shri R. Venkatraman, President of India - K. N. Balgopal	10
7.	Contradictions Between Claims and Practice	12
8.	Miracles all Around	21
9.	Telepathists Detect at Tea Table - S. Panasenko	24
10.	Want to Learn You are Psychic? Come to Eidos - M. Dmitru	26
11.	New Skeptics Groups form in the Soviet Union	31
12.	Calling all spirits II - Harry Edwards	33
13.	Ram Janma-Bhomi and Babri Masjid Controversy	38

Vol. 3 No. 8 December 1990

1.	President of India, Scientific Temper and the Misuse of Government Funds - B. Premanand	1
2.	President's Patron - Vishwa Nath	2
3.	To Contain Communalism - T. P. Naliyath	5
4.	Amendment to the Hindu Marriage Act by the Atheist Society of India	8
5.	The Politicians and the Power of Superstitions	12
6.	The Anti Superstition Campaign - Dr. N. Innaiah	13
7.	The Deprogramming by the Church in Europe	16
8.	Paranormal Pandemonium in the Soviet Union - Paul Kurtz	19
9.	Sub-continental Skepticism - Harry Edwards	27
10.	Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samithi, Maharashtra Report	33
11.	Do You Need and Astrologer to Predict these? B. V. Raman's Predictions for 1991 - B. Premanand	36

Vol. 3 No. 9 January 1991

1.	1990 a Year of Fanatism and Unscientific Approach - B. Premanand	2
2.	Tamil Pandits Say It's all in the Stars - Rita Manchanda	15
3.	The Governors Go the Way of The President: "More Things are Wrought by Prayer" - Courtesy The Hindu	15
4.	Farmers Turn to Rain God	16
5.	Scientists Only Hope of Country	17
6.	Exposing the Exorcist - Vikram S. Mandape	18
7.	Official Recognition to Astrology	19
8.	No Importance to Astrology	21
9.	In Search of Haunted Houses and Ghosts - T. P. Nhaliath	23
10.	Burning Bodies: A Crime - T. P. Nhaliyath	24
11.	Testing Psi Claims in China. Visit by a CSICOP Delegation - Paul Kurtz	25
12.	Preliminary Testing - James Alcock, Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr.; Philip J. Klass, Paul Kurtz and James Randi	28
13.	Sri. G. D. Naidu	40

Vol. 3 No. 10 February 1991

1.	Don Quixote: My Hero of the childhood - B. Premanand	2
2.	Saraswathi Gora: The Light of Atheist Centre - Mrs. Sunanda Shet	4
3.	Think with a Smile - Kiran	17
4.	Dowsing - Water Divining Using Sticks - Narendra Nayak	18
5.	Think with a Smile - Kiran	19
6.	Bhagwan or the Dilemma of a Human Religion. A Psychoanalytic Study - Fritz Erik Hoevels	20
7.	Think with a Smile - Kiran	33
8.	The Sly Gods - Chandana Chakrabarti	34

Vol. 3 No. 11 March 1991

1.	Foretelling it Like it Isn't - Rahul Singh	2
2.	Nostradamus and the Middle East Crisis - Allan Lang	4
3.	Small Little Things which Bring Change - Kiran	11
4.	Life and Thoughts of Dr. Bheemrao Ramji Ambedkar	12
5.	Small Little Things which Bring Change - Kiran	35
6.	Claims of Levitation 'Miracles' in India - B. Premanand	37
7.	Think with a Smile - Kiran	39

Vol. 3 No. 12 April 1991

1.	Three Years of Indian Skeptic - B. Premanand	1
2.	The Law Makers breaking the Laws	4
3.	Small Little Things which Bring Change - Kiran	5
4.	Writ Petition - A. P. Mukundan	6
5.	Science Versus Miracles - B. Premanand	17
6.	Bhagwan or the Dilemma of a Human Religion. Part III A Psychoanalytic Study - Fritz Erik Hoevels	20

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