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    Earlier this year, Dr. Narendra Dabholkar, president of a prominent Indian rationalist organization, the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS), or Committee for the Eradication of Blind Faith, was killed for his efforts to get an anti-superstition law passed. Like other movements of organized rationalism in India, MANS sought to promote scientific knowledge and combat the influence of black-magic practitioners and self-styled godmen. Although his assailants have not yet been apprehended, Dr. Dabholkar (b. ) received significant threats from hard-right groups who claimed to be defending religious sensibilities.

    A New York Times article covering Dr. Dabholkar's death (see Reference below) blames his murder on the clash between “religious/traditional” and “secular/modern” visions of the world, a purportedly “timeless” conflict that exemplifies the contradictions at the heart of modern India.
     
    But is this the narrative that best explains the

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    Narendra Dabholkar

    Indian physician and author (–)

    Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (1 November – 20 August )[1] was an Indian physician, social activist, rationalist and author from Maharashtra, India.[2] In he founded and became president of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS, Committee for Eradication of Superstition in Maharashtra). Triggered by his assassination in , the pending Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance was promulgated in the state of Maharashtra, four days later.[3] In , he was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri for social work.[4]

    Personal life

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    Dabholkar was born on 1 November as the youngest of ten children in the Brahmin[5][6] household of Achyut and Tarabai. His elder siblings included the educationalist, and socialist Devdatta Dabholkar[7] and Shripad Dabholkar. He is the uncle of Atish Dabholkar.

    Narendra did his schooling at New English School Satara

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    Darkness at Dawn

    NARENDRA DABHOLKAR was in a chatty mood on the evening of 18 August The year-old rationalist had delivered a lecture against superstition in the town of Rahimatpur, in Maharashtra’s Satara district, and was returning in a car to his home in Satara city, about a half-hour drive away. On the way, Dabholkar held forth on “the benefits of a healthy diet, regular exercise and time management, to help one live longer,” recounted Shivaji Raut, an old friend and right-to-information campaigner, who was with him on the journey.

    Though he arrived home quite late, Dabholkar rose early the next morning to catch a 6 am bus to Pune. He generally spent the first two days of each week in the city, where he oversaw the work of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (Maharashtra Blind Faith Eradication Committee), also known bygd the acronym MANS, an organisation he founded in While in Pune, Dabholkar would also omslag up work on the latest issue of Sadhana, a year-old wee