This is the story of N.K. Singh, Senior lecturer, National Institute of Visually Handicapped School, Dehradun. While most of those who lose their eye-sight blame it as a curse for the sins committed in their previous birth and spend this life singing praises of god so that they could be normal in their next, the attitude of N.K. Singh is totally different and praise worthy. He lost his eyesight due to conjunctivitis when he was a toddler. His father tried his best to get him treated. The treatment was to collect seven types of stones from different roads and throw them into a well after waving them around the child’s head. The higher level of treatment was repeating the same with seven different flowers! When wisdom finally dawned upon the father he took him to a eye hospital at Aligarh where some medicine was prescribed but not purchased because he could not afford the six rupees needed! After all that when the child was finally taken for proper treatment to Delhi, it was too late as the optic nerves had atrophied. Read the full story

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We have reported on many of the past challenges issued by rationalists to purveyors of supernatural beliefs. The challenger in many of these cases (1,2,3,4,5), Mr Narendra Nayak, president of the Federation of Rationalist Associations of India, has a long-standing challenge issued specifically for astrologers. Here it is in his own words:

“We shall provide the date, time and place of birth of 10 individuals along with the appropriate solutions. The challenger can cast the horoscope and state the following within 90% limits of accuracy- is the individual male or female, dead or alive. ” Read the full story

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These challenges were released to the Nepal press on the occasion of a press conference at Kathmandu on the 25th of October and the same are applicable to those in India too! Read the full story