1. Editor's Page 2 2. Express Scribe Beaten Indian Express 1.3.1994 3 3. Journalists Assaulted: free-for-all Astrological Meet in Calcutta - Indian Express 1.3.1994 4 4. Dim Wits Conference - K. Singh 4 5. The Judgement dated 15.3.1994 in Cr.W.P.No. 14454/93 6 6. Argument for Petitioner on 28.9.1993 17 7. Argument for Petitioner on 23.2.1994 18 8. Argument for Respondents on 1.3.1994 31 9. Reply to the Respondents Arguments on 4.3.1994 32 10. Press release on Dismissal 35 11. Judges Rush to Puttaparthi Eenadu dated. 19.1.94 Anantaur Ed 38 12. What Shall be Done? - Asit Kr. Mukherjee 39 13. Can Prayer Cure Rabies? - N. Vikram 40 14. Can Hiccups be Cured by Holy Water? - Brijeshwar Singh 42 15. Bhoomi Pujan at Indira Gandhi National Open University - Dada Chandane 43 16. Music Therapy for Curing Diseases - N. Nayak 45 17. Endowment for Annual Awards for Spreading Rationalism 46 18. Committed Suicide to experience Rebirth and Visit Heaven - Dhananjay Aditya 46 19. Assault by Astrologers - B. Das 47
1. Editor's Page 2 2. The Secret of Liquefying Blood - Margaret Bhatty 6 3. A Miracle Diagnosis: Luigi Garlaschelli, Franco Ramaccini and Sergio Della Sala 11 4. Comments on Judgement in Cr. W. P. No. 14454/93 - B. Premanand 17 5. Sai Baba's Galore - Vijay S. Trivedi 33 6. The Miracle Healing of Rev. Mike Francen challenged - Harish Deshmukh 36 7. Malayath Harassed by Insurance Company for Working for National Integration 36 8. Why Do My Parents Believe Satya Sai Baba - Miss H. Navatha 37 9. Kailas Baba Sentenced: Judgement 39 10. Letters to Editor 44
1. Rude violation of a Writer's Freedom - K. Venkata Reddy 2 2. God's Wealth Belongs to his Children - K. N. Balgopal 7 3. Book Review: Beyond Ying and Yang 12 4. Patanjali Yoga - Awani Kumar 15 5. Controlled Experiments and Critical Observations - Adhyatma Saroj 16 6. Scientific Investigation on Yogis - Dr. G. S. Chhina 17 7. EEG of a Nadi Yogi - Nitya Chaitanya Yati 25 8. Ashwamedh Circus - Margaret Bhatty 28 9. Smoke Signals - Times of India Editorial 30 10. Agnihotra - B. V. Radhakrishna Murthy 31 11. Plant Rights - Biranchi Narayan Mishra 37 12. Reported Child Sacrifice: Tip of Iceberg - K. Rajbir Deswal 39 13. Now a Thanksgiving Yagna by P. M's Son - Indian Express 40 14. Life Member List 41 15. Kirloskar Was a Rationalist - Vidyadhar Date 43 16. Rationalist and Visionary - Times of India Editorial 44 17. Man-handling of Rationalists Which the Astrologers Did Not Predict - Biranchi Narayan Mishra 45 18. Unification of Atheists, Rationalists, Humanists, Secularists Environmentalists etc., - T. P. Nhaliyath 46 19. Letters to the Editor 47
1. Contents and Editor's Page 2 2. Miracles or Mania? - Joe Nickell 5 3. The Writ Appeal 8 4. Petitions by the Sri Sathya Sai Institute or Higher Learning Staff Association 12 5. Petitions to Government for Record Copies of Sai Baba Case 17 6. Why I Am Not A Hindu by Dr. Ramendra Book Review - Margaret Bhatty 33 7. Working for a Humanist World 36 8. Faith in Resurrection - B. N. Mishra 40 9. Keeps Dead Sister for 12 Days - Indian Express 12.3.1994 40 10. Our Health Minister and Quackery - Majoe 41 11. Free Health for All? Miracles of Water Therapy 41 12. These Notorious Godmen - B. Das 43 13. Sex, Murder Scandals Surround Assam Godman's Ashram - Samudra Gupta Kashyap 44 14. Save Tasleema Nasreen - Atheist Society of India 45 15. Thane Godman Held for Theft - E. J. Ferandez 46 16. Pope's Confession: Cartoon - T. P. Kunhiraman 47
1. Contents and Editor's Page 2 2. Secularism Indian Experience - S. Shet 7 3. Join the Indian Secular Society 17 4. Acupuncture: The Facts - Dr. S. Basser 18 5. Superstitions and; Our Godmen - T. K. Balan 28 6. Godman's Ashram Set Afire: Times of India 5.7.1994 28 7. Remand for Swami: Times of India 22.6.94 29 8. Scandals of 'Superstar' Thai Monks: (AP) 30 9. Girl Exorcises to Death 31 10. Raped over 100 Young Girls Confesses Swami - Keshavananda: Dhananjay Aditya 31 11. Ceremonies in India - G.R.R. Babu 33 12. Observation: Mind Plays Tricks - Laxmidhar Pradhani 38 13. Can Anyone Levitate? - Gordon Stein 41 14. The Poltergeist: An Investigation - N. Nayak 44 15. Letters to the Editor: 45
1. Contents and Editor's page 2 2. The Truths of Edamarukus 2 - B. Premanand 3 3. Humanist World Fights Religious Death Threats - IHEU 7 4. Ceremonies in India Part II - G. R. R. Babu 9 5. "Sai Baba's Miracles an Overview" by Dale Beyerstein Book Review - Margaret Bhatty 24 6. Mathematical Magic for Skeptics - Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer 27 7. Murder Most Foul! - Margaret Bhatty 39 8. Hidden Memories: Fact or Fantasy? Barry L. Beyerstein and James and R. P. Ogloff 40 9. Letters to the Editor 46
1. Contents and Editor's Page 2 2. Atlanta's House of Blood - R. Long 7 3. Woman in Society - Dr. S. Shet 10 4. "Spirit Writing" Photographs: Exposed! - Anson Kennedy 19 5. World With or Without End? - Andrea Szalanski 23 6. Advent of Another God in South - M. B. Deshmukh 24 7. Israel Skeptics Active 26 8. Murders in Sai Baba's Bed Room: All Because of a Woman? - Dr. M. Srichandan 28 9. Girl Behind Puttaparthi Incident? - The Hindu dated. 23.1.94 28 10. Remembering Past Birth Exposed - Rationalist Society Punjab 29 11. News from Anantapur: Andhra Pradesh - B. V. Radhakrishna Murthy 31 12. Ashvamedha Yajna` Sparks off Controversy in Gujarat - Indian Express 20.8.1994 by A.K. Mukherjee 32 13. Aswamedha Yagna Put Off - Indian Express 28.9.94 33 14. Rush for Asthma Medicine - Times of India 9.8.94 33 15. "Living Without Religion: Eupraxophy" by Paul Kurtz: Book Review 34 16. The Pseudoscience of the "Water Cure" - R. Dear 35 17. Introducing Indian Skeptic Groups - D. K. Rationalist Association 38 18. Letters to the Editor 39
1. Contents and Editor's Page 2 2. Predictions for the Assembly Elections - Narendra Nayak 4 3. Need for Knowledgeable Citizens - Dr. P. M. Bhargava 5 4. More than Meets the Scientific Eye - Margaret Bhatty 7 5. Superstition and Wasteful Expenditure - K. S. Ramachandran 11 6. GAIA - An Overview - Tim Beardsley 12 7. Signs In the Sky - Dr. J.V. Narlikar 15 8. A Challenge to Astrologers - Narendra Nayak 17 9. The Mysteries of the Sky - Amit Joshie 18 10. WHO PAID FOR THE ADVERTISEMENT IN THE HINDU? 24 11. Umesh Choubey Honoured - Harish Adyalkar 27 12. Protect the Constitution and the Law - B. Premanand 28 13. Does Agnihotra Help? - Dada Chandane 41 14. The Need to Unify all Rationalist Organisations 46
1. Contents and Editor's Page 2 2. Nation Can Progress only by Devotion - P. V. Narasimha Rao 2 3. Challenge to the Governor of Assam: Allow us to Verify your Claims of Cure by Mantra Power - S. Radheshyam 5 4. Prometheus Books Publishers of Skeptic Books 6 5. The Strange Case of the New Haven Oysters - Paul Quincey 7 6. More on the Godmen, Tantriks and the Believers - T.K. Balan 14 7. How we Lost Faith in Satya Sai Baba - K.S. Ramachandran 21 8. Still Questions Remain Unanswered - K.S. Ramachandran 23 9. Conformism Vs Originality - J.V. Narlikar 24 10. Whether Gifting Government Lands for Temple is Secular A Writ Petition in Maharashtra High Court 26 11. Aroma Therapy: Making Dollars out of Scents - Stephen Barrett 35 12. Follow-up: Agnihotra - M. Purushothaman 38 13. Fire the Healer - S. Ramanarasu 40 14. Fellow of INSA Quits in Protest 42 15. Lies in the Name of Religion - Eva Sharma 43 16. Criticism: Bug Bans - Margaret Bhatty 44 17. An Open Letter to Sri T. N. Seshan, C. E. C. of India 46
1. Contents and Editor's Page 2 2. The Praying Palm Tree - Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose 5 3. Alleged Psychic Uri Geller Loses Libel suit Against Prometheus Books - Michael Powers 23 4. A Destroyer of Myths - M. Chandrasekhar 24 5. Science, Technology and Environment Topics in Different Media (Print, Electronics and Stamps) - Swapna Rao 26 6. Tabe Clinic Treatment, whether fraud or scientific - B. Premanand 37
1. Contents and Editor's Page 2 2. Note on Co-operation Among Various Rationalist, Humanist Organisations of India - Dr. Ramendra, Convenor BRS 4 3. Nostraddamarama - Elena M. Watson 7 4. Myocardial Infarction: Patient Guide - Cadila Edu. Service 18 5. Directory of Skeptics 21 6. Therapeutic Touch: Why do Nurses Believe? - Vern L. Bullough and Bonnie Bullough 22 7. Healthy Skepticism - Tim Gorski, M. D. 28 8. Chiropractic - Tim Gorski, M. D. 31 9. Letters to the Editor 39
1. Review of "Science versus Miracles" - Margaret Bhatty 2 2. 20th year of Action 4 3. Sai Baba's Horoscope Reading by Sushil Chaturvedi - Margaret Bhatty 5 4. The Vastu - (A) Shastra? - Michael McLaughlin 6 5. Can We Believe Jesus - Miss Sthitaprajna 8 6. News from Haryana - Dr. Rajendra Gera 10 7. The Girl Who Remembered Her Past Birth - Dr. Rajendra Gera 11 8. Many Who Visit Sai Baba Vanish - N. Vikram 13 9. The Unsecular Decision of Andhra Government - N. Vikram 14 10. Perpetual Energy Controversy - Prof. M. T. Beck 17 11. Tribal Medicine Men no Longer Authentic 23 12. Sukra Dasa for Nation 24 13. Sorcerer Baulks at Rationalist Body's challenge; Flees 25 14. Jain Temple Miracle Attracts Crowd 26 15. The Superstitions in News - T. K. Balan 27 16. Astrologers Can't Thank Their Stars - L. K. Sharma 28 17. Follow your Old Stars Say the Astrologers 29 18. Priest Drowns in Bid to Walk on Water 30 19. Yatra to Challenge Godman's Miracles 31 20. Help Age India - Dr. G. N. Padki 31 21. The Search of Perpetual Energy Machine - B. Premanand 32 22. Letters 41
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