Sanal Edamaruku
Sanal Edamaruku
President of Rationalist International and Indian Rationalist Association.
Sanal Edamaruku is one of the most known rationalists of our times. He is the President of Rationalist International and edits its internet publication that appears in English, French, German, Spanish and Finnish. He convened three International Rationalist Conferences in 1995, in 2000 and in 2002.
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. His studies and exposures of powerful godmen like Satya Sai Baba, Pilot Baba, Balti Baba, Chandra Swami, Swami Sadachari, Mata Amritanandamayi, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar etc. have significantly influenced the public perception. His dynamic anti-superstition campaign is bringing about a silent revolution in Indian villages. Hundreds of rationalist volunteers trained by Sanal Edamaruku are challenging claims of paranormal all over India and in several other countries. Sanal Edamaruku's campaigns have attracted wide national and international media attention, and have been featured by TV channels Discovery, BBC, Channel IV of UK, CNN and print media including New York Times, Washington post, The Independent, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Time, Newsweek, Asia Week and all major Indian newspapers.
Sanal Edamaruku has delivered lectures in the USA, UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Australia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Japan. He has authored a wide range of articles and several books. His articles are translated and published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Oriya, French, Spanish, German, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegean, and several other languages. With two novels and many short stories, he has made a mark as creative writer in Malayalam language. He has built up Indian Atheist Publishers, Asia's largest freethought publishing house.
Links: http://www.rationalistinternational.net/home/sanal_edamaruku.htm http://www.rationalistinternational.net http://www.indianrationalist.org