Abraham Kovoor’s Case Diary: Do We Survive Death?

Abraham Kovoor “If Mr. Kovoor s materialistic theory of the mind is accepted, all possibility of survival after death has to be ruled out, which means that all religious teachings that postu­late a life after death are false”. (G.G. Munidasa - Times of Ceylon - 30-4-67). “What Mr. Kovoor thinks will happen to his own spirit after his death?” (A. Wickramasinghe - Times of Ceylon). I do not hold the view that my life is located in a particular spot in my body. Life is generated in all living...

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Excellences and Values

A.N. Moorthy Rao  From the stage when man regarded nature forces and animals like the crocodile, the snake and the monkey as God, we rose to the stage of the ‘Trimurti’ concept and have presently reached the vision of a single God. We may rightly say that our cogitation has indeed progressed. It is true that in popular legends, many human vices have been attributed to God. But, as civilization advanced, the tendency to attribute to God the virtues of man along with his vices, a tendency...

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Shadows of Trident: Modi as Prime Ministerial Candidate

Ram Puniyani From last several months (April 2013) the Bihar Chief Minister Niteesh Kumar is becoming more vocal about his opposition to his electoral ally BJP projecting Narendra Modi as the Prime ministerial candidate. He went on to say that the PM candidate should be one who has a secular image, in obvious reference to Narendra Modi’s role in Gujarat carnage of 2002. He also said that it was ok to work with Vajpayee or even Advani should be ok. It is clear that all three; Vajpayee, Advani...

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Science versus Miracles: Demonstrating Psychic Powers with Playing Cards – Part III

B Premanand The psychic claims to have powers to hypnotize every one. He calls six persons from the audience. On the left side he asks five people to stand facing the audience and on the right side the sixth person. He hypnotizes the five volunteers and shows a pack of cards and asks each one to remember one of the cards.  He does so to all the five volunteers. Then he requests the volunteers, one by one, to tell the audience as to what card they have remembered. After they announce...

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Whither Annihilation of Caste?

Ram Puniyani When on this (14th April 2013) anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Babasaheb Ambedkar, we pay tribute to his yeomen services towards the cause of social justice and bringing to fore the values of democracy; we also need to think as to how his dream and vision of annihilation of caste can be taken further. Where do we stand in this direction six decades after the Independence and after the formal implementation of Constitution of India, which gives us the values of Liberty, Equality...

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Abraham Kovoor’s Case Diary: Rebirth and Prodigies

Abraham Kovoor “Mr. Kovoor’s sound arguments to prove the absence of a life after death are, no doubt, very convincing. Yet, 1 like to ask Mr. Kovoor what he has to say about the numerous cases of rebirths investigated scientifically and confirmed by persons of high integrity and learning like Dr. Ian Stevenson, Prof HN Banerji, Prof K.N Jayatilleke, Mr. V.F. Gunaratne, and many others. “How will Mr. Kovoor explain child prodigies, and inequalities in children born to the same parents?”...

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The Concept of One God

A.N. Moorthy Rao We have not succeeded in our attempt to understand the nature of God by the inductive method. Since each one of the gods that we encountered in our attempts has some shortcoming or the other, none of them could be the Supreme God, the Monarch of the Cosmos. We describe God with weighty epithets such as the Holiest, the Sinless, the Chaste, the Benign, and the Compassionate. But, none of the gods that we have considered so far merits these descriptions. Let us, therefore,...

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Science versus Miracles: Demonstrating Psychic Powers with Playing Cards – Part II

B Premanand The psychic is blindfolded. The volunteer is asked to select a card from the card pack given to him and place it on the table with the back of the card up. The blind folded psychic moves his index finger over the card and identifies it correctly. Experiment: 109 Effect: Telling the card while blind folded. Props: Cloth for blind-fold, marked cards. Because of our protruding noses, however tight one ties a blind fold, the person can see through the space between cheeks and the nose. When the knots are being tied, close...

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Nationalism, Kingdoms and Kings: Looking at Shivaji and Rana Pratap

Ram Puniyani The legend of some of the kings continues in different forms and is used by different political formations. These political formations draw their identity from the past and project it on the present. These sectarian streams have been using the names of different kings and glorifying them in various ways. There is a hidden message of a politics behind such efforts, as they eulogize the pre-colonial period for their political agenda. While the incidents and events are the same,...

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