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	Sanal Edamaruku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sanal Edamaruku is also the President of Indian Rationalist Association (HQ@indianrationalist.org) which grew under his leadership into world's largest and most vibrant organization of its kind.
		Sanal Edamaruku is a well known investigator of claims of miracles and paranormal, and has exposed hundreds of godmen and charlatans.
		Sanal Edamaruku is a specialist of political and social life in Asia and of Eastern philosophy.
	www.rationalistinternational.net /home/sanal_edamaruku.htm (340 words)

	The Hindu : Kerala News : Edamaruku dead
		Edamaruku, the face of the rationalist movement in Kerala and known for his critical works on holy books, died at his residence at Mayur Vihar in East Delhi.
		Edamaruku represented a colourful era of rationalist movement in the State and was an influential figure for youth.
		Edamaruku, who won the International Atheist Award in 1979, was imprisoned in 1970 and in 1975 during Emergency.
	www.hindu.com /2006/06/30/stories/2006063018810500.htm (272 words)

	Rationalist victory \| International Humanist and Ethical Union
		In a press statement Sanal Edamaruku condemned the opening of the 'Mantra Healing Centre' as ridiculing the spirit of inquiry and scientific temper, envisaged as fundamental duties in the Constitution of India and criticised the politicians involved as criminally irresponsible.
		Sanal Edamaruku demanded the health minister's resignation because he had disqualified himself for the office that he held by trying to get public sanction for an age-old superstition: he had, in fact, misused the authority of his office.
		Sanal also demanded legal action against the Mantra healer on two grounds: firstly he was not a registered medical practitioner and secondly his 'therapy' was a 'magical remedy'.
	www.iheu.org /node/668 (1585 words)

	Sanal Edamaruku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sanal Edamaruku is the founder-president of Rationalist International and the president of the Indian Rational Association.
		He was born in 1955 in Thodupuzha, in Kerala, India to Joseph and Solly Edamaruku.
		Sanal Edamaruku on the Rationalist Agenda for the 21st Century
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanal_Edamaruku (407 words)

	Indian Rationalist Association
		Sanal Edamaruku is leading the greatest rationalist counter campaign that has ever been fought, cutting the heads of the hydra as they appear.
		Sanal Edamaruku, Secretary General, Indian Rationalist Association and Founder President of Rationalist International, welcomed the delegates and outlined how the Indian Rationalist Association had been founded fifty years ago with a list of Indian members of the Rationalist Press Association.
		Sanal Edamaruku discussed a Rationalist Agenda for the 21st Century.
	indianrationalists.blogspot.com (18757 words)

	Encounter in Makkanpur
		Sanal explains the basics of scientific thinking and the scientific principles that are creating the illusion of some miracles.
		Sanal distributes some of these little balls and a group of young people starts exercising with them.
		Sanal Edamaruku, since two decades leading anti-superstition campaigner, has personally trained hundreds of young rationalists in miracle debunking.
	www.skeptica.dk /2000/sehgal.htm (1485 words)

	Sanal Edamaruku Intian rationalistiyhdistyksen puheenjohtaksi
		Edamaruku on toiminut yhdistyksen yleissihteerinä vuodesta 1983 ja johti tuhansia kyliä käsittäneen taikauskon vastaista marssia vuonna 1990.
		Herra Edamaruku asuu New Delhissä ja hän on hankkinut koulutuksensa Keralan yliopistosta ja Jawaharlal Nehru yliopistossa (JNU) New Delhissä.
		Herra Edamaruku on ollut kolmen kansainvälisen rationalistikonferenssin kokoonkutsuja, jotka järjestettiin Intiassa vuosina 1995, 2000 ja 2002.
	www.vunet.org /article/yhteiskunta/story19.html (274 words)

	Sai Baba's silent birthday
		It reported that Sanal Edamaruku, Secretary General of the Indian Rationalist Association, had called upon the Indian Prime Minister to abstain from Sai Baba's function as the PM prostrating himself in front of a religious leader was a contravention of the secular principles of the Indian Constitution.
		Sanal's statement in The Asian Age, followed by reports in other newspapers and in the TV evening news, seemed to have quenched Sai Baba's thirst for the lime light.
		But "holy ash" was produced abundantly the next day, when Sanal Edamaruku as the special guest in the Star Plus TV Science Show "Eureka" once more demonstrated and explained Sai Baba's tricks.
	home.hetnet.nl /~ex-baba/engels/articles/silent.html (686 words)

	Life After Death, Part 12: The Dream continues : IntentBlog
		Sanal Edamaruku exposes reincarnation claims in live TV The belief in reincarnation is widespread and deep-rooted in India.
		Sanal Edamaruku's sensible and careful handling of both the cases called to mind that exposing superstitions without consideration for the individuals entangled in them can cause much damage.
		With tact and great skill Sanal Edamaruku succeeded, however, in exposing the absurd claims of reincarnation and their roots and mechanisms uncompromisingly for the audience to understand without inflicting pain and personal embarrassment on the victims that could disturb their mental balance.
	www.intentblog.com /archives/2006/11/the_dream_conti.html (2923 words)

	Print Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Edamaruku says “what may look like Sunday entertainment for children, is in fact nothing less than breaking the little hook on which the god-men’s enormous power, and the fate of their victims, hangs.”
		Despite a tenacious western orientalism which overemphasises and overvalues Indian religiosity, reinforced by the homegrown ‘Hindutva’ movement propagated by the BJP (anatomised by Meera Nanda in New Humanist Jan/Feb 2005), India has a long and distinguished rationalist tradition which is considerably older than that of the west.
		Edamaruku had appeared on the 10 o’clock news the night before, confidently predicting that nothing would happen.
	www.newhumanist.org.uk /printarticle.php?id=1796_0_39_0_C (1986 words)

	India no longer paradise for gurus and godmen
		Under the title "Exposed at home, Indian godmen go West", Sanal Edamaruku will shed light on an alarming phenomenon, which could be called the globalization of traditional Indian superstition.
		Sanal Edamaruku and the Indian Rationalist Association unleashed a powerful public campaign against this, and within one month, the health minister's chair was shaking and the Mantra Healing Center was closed down.
		Sanal Edamaruku's speech, "Exposed at home, Indian godmen go West" is on 23 June (Sunday) forenoon at the Hilton, Burbank Airport and Convention Center.
	home.hetnet.nl /~ex-baba/engels/shortnews/paradise.html?FACTNet (339 words)

	Bartholomew's notes on religion
		The death of Khareshwari Baba was a brutal murder by you with the connivance of the government officials and the organisers of your show.
		In 1992, Sanal Edamaruku exposed the godman Pilot Baba who claimed that he survived in meditation under water for five days without breathing.
		Edamaruku exposed him again in front of television cameras.
	blogs.salon.com /0003494/2005/10/22.html (1625 words)

	DNA - India - Noted rationalist Edamaruku passes away - Daily News & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEW DELHI: Noted rationalist and senior Malayalam journalist Joseph Edamaruku died of a massive heart attack here on Thursday.
		Born on September 7, 1934 in Kerala's Idukki district, Edamaruku represents a colourful era of rationalist movement in the state and was an influential figure for youth.
		An staunch campaigner against obscurantism, superstitions and blind belief, he was president of Indian Rationalist Association from 1995 to 2005.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1038420 (321 words)

	Edamaruku Wikipedia, Flickr, Delicious Bash at Bashr.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Edamaruku last updated: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:20:47 -0400
		Joseph Edamaruku (popularly identified by his surname Edamaruku) (7 September 1934 - 29 June 2006) was a well known journalist and a militant rationalist from Kerala.
		His son, Sanal Edamaruku, is a prominent Indian rationalist and president of the Rationalist International.
	www.bashr.com /en_bio_pics/Edamaruku (243 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		From a dusty pigeon hole in Delhi’s downmarket Mayur Vihar district, Sanal Edamaruku leads the Indian Rationalists Association.
		But Edamaruku touched the pots and found they were cool.
		Edamaruku conceals hardened balls of fragrant ash between his fingers and crushes them in his palm; the godman does it better.
	www.pathfinder.com /Asiaweek/97/0404/is1.html (2662 words)

	Rationalism information - Search.com
		Most—if not all—prominent rationalists today, including scientists such as Richard Dawkins and activists such as Sanal Edamaruku are atheists.
		Outside of religious discussion, the discipline of rationalism may be applied more generally, for example to political or social issues.
		A Rationalist Agenda for the new Century by Sanal Edamaruku
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Rationalism (611 words)

	Of holy men and their murky ways- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like Kancheepuram -- one of India's seven holiest Hindu sites with nearly 300 temples -- cities abundant in temples have been found to be the den of criminal activities like drug smuggling, sex trade and land grabbing.
		"Whenever gullible people can be exploited by people of divinity, money is under no control," says Sanal Edamaruku of the Indian Rationalist Association.
		Edamaruku, who has spent years exposing fraud by so-called godmen, cited a decade-old case of killing of four students in an ashram in southern India.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/929659.cms (299 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quoting police records, Edamaruku says there are at least 213 tantriks in Delhi.
		Called ‘Guru Buster’ by the foreign press, Edamaruku is a crusader against the ‘fl magic men’.
		It is illegal as well." Edamaruku cites the example of an IIT student who went to a tantrik to cure his father’s heart ailment.
	www.the-week.com /25may01/lifestyle_article7.htm (1110 words)

	Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
		This is an interview with Sanal Edamaruku, the gent who took on the simian and won.
		But this wasn't the only supernatural challenge he's faced in his 20-year career as a paranormal investigator.
		Edamaruku's resume reads like a home-grown version of The X Files, full of mystery, wonder and frequently blurring the line between the real and the unreal.
	www.corpse.org /issue_10/broken_news/arnab.html (1841 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		“There is no spirit of critical inquiry in our society,” says Sanal Edamaruku, president of the Indian Rationalists Association in New Delhi.
		Edamaruku cites Swami Sadachari, who mingled with prime ministers and presidents, before being arrested some years ago in Delhi for running a brothel.
		The Sathya Sai Baba, despite sordid allegations of sexual abuse and a boycott by unesco, continues to have the powerful falling at his feet.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main12.asp?filename=hub051405Holy_ghost.asp (989 words)

	Commentary, April 8, 2005, How Long Do We Wait, Rolling Along Down Fantasy Lane, Gallic Stars — Heavenly and In ...
		Sanal Edamaruku, who has just been elected as the new President of the Indian Rationalist Association (IRA).
		Edamaruku was the IRA general secretary since 1983 and led a series of marches against superstition that covered thousands of villages in India during the 1990s.
		He received national media attention for exposing and explaining several so-called "miracles" that had gained the attention of the media, worldwide, among them the "milk drinking" statues of the Indian god Ganesh, and the "monkey man" stories.
	www.randi.org /jr/040805how.html (6258 words)

	Antony Flew : Theology and Falsification
		My view is that it would not invalidate Flew's 1950 thoughts if he went mad later.
		In any case, this is what Sanal Edamaruku of Rationalist International had to say about Flew's "conversion".
		On 16th December 2004, Professor Antony Flew, British philosopher, well known rationalist, atheist and an Honorary Associate of Rationalist International, telephoned me and informed that the wild rumours about his changed views are baseless.
	www.ratbags.com /rsoles/comment/flew.htm (1165 words)

	Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No it's Monkey Man! - Asia News - TIME Asia Web Exclusive, Friday, May. 18, 2001
		No one, that is, except for the India Rationalist Association, whose Secretary General, Sanal Edamaruku, says it's a case of mass delusion.
		It is no coincidence that a series on the exploits of the monkey-god Hanuman, showing this popular Hindu deity bounding great distances and carrying out extraordinary feats, is currently being screened on TV.
		The Monkey Man is said to take many forms: robotic; half-monkey; half-human; a computer screen for a stomach; flashing lights for eyes; a dark shadow; wears an iron mask; has iron claws; has coil springs on its feet.
	www.time.com /time/asia/news/daily/0,9754,127216,00.html (747 words)

	Marxism message, RE: "India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa," San
		RE: "India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa," Sanal Edamaruku of the Indian Rationalist Association
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		RE: "India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa," Sanal Edamaruku of the Indian Rationalist Association, Craven, Jim Sun 19 Oct 2003, 18:00 GMT
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/2003w41/msg00291.htm (271 words)

	Freeindiamedia.com, Express your impartial, radical, grassroot views on current issues. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Are the voices calling for the entry of women into Sabarimala guilty of forcing a lumpen modernism into the stern austere place where the god’s traditions have been kept alive for hundreds of years?
		According to Sanal Edamaruku of the India Rationalist Association, Sabarimala might originally have been a Buddhist site, where men came as monks to a monastery.
		So while Sabarimala’s restrictions on women may not be consonant with modern notions of gender equality, its traditions are Buddhist and monastic, where celibacy is the philosophical undertow.
	www.freeindiamedia.com /women/10_july1_06.html (1133 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Thousands throng to see 'wonder' boy
		Despite his popularity Tinku Deka's claims have caused outrage among some.
		The head of the Indian Rationalist Association, Sanal Edamaruku, said the boy's claims, especially the cure of terminally ill patients, were simply unrealistic.
		Mr Edmaruku said many people in rural India are unable to afford basic health services and are therefore willing to try any alternative, as long as it's free or inexpensive.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1347214.stm (388 words)

	"India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa" by Sanal Edamaruku
		"India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa" by Sanal Edamaruku
		Evaluating what she has actually done here, I think, India has no reason to be grateful to her", said Sanal Edamaruku, Secretary General of the Indian Rationalist Association and President of Rationalist International in a statement on the occasion of her beatification today.
		Mother Teresa has given a bad name to Calcutta, painting the beautiful, interesting, lively and culturally rich Indian metropolis in the colors of dirt, misery, hopelessness and death.
	www.mukto-mona.com /Articles/mother_teresa/sanal_ed.htm (833 words)

	Starry starry lies
		It began with Lachman Das Madan, publisher of the Babaji magazine.
		Ten years ago, he appeared twice on a TV programme that I used to host and on the second occasion, he faced an angry challenge from Sanal Edamaruku of the Rationalist Association.
		It is to Mr Madan’s credit that even though logic was on Sanal’s side, he more than held his own.
	www.mid-day.com /columns/vir_sanghvi/2004/september/93260.htm (1102 words)

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		[2] Sanal Edamaruku, "Indian Rationalists Defend the Right to Criticize Pope," Rationalist International 22 (October 25, 1999).
		[9] Sanal Edamaruku, "Are Christians Really Persecuted in India?" Rationalist International 43 (27 July 2000).
		[19] Sanal Edamaruku, "God Longs for All Hindus!
	www.secweb.org /asset.asp?AssetID=363 (3497 words)

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