A few months back we interviewed Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International. They’re like the Indian version of those fat guys on Mythbusters, only instead of trying to disprove the effects of pop rocks and Coke, they’re trying to debunk all the charismatic gurus wandering around the subcontinent before their followers sacrifice their children for luck. Sliiiightly higher stakes. Early last month, Sanal challenged a Tantrik priest to kill him with magic on national TV, then spent the whole time chuckling and making that "get on with it" hand gesture like an asshole as spell after spell did nothing. I guess it’s all well and good that gullible Indians have one less conman to be scared of, but couldn’t Sanal just once have pretended he was choking or something, then, right when all the tantrik peeps started getting excited, crack up right in the bald guy’s face? Once in a lifetime opportunity we’re talking about here.
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