Narendra Nayak
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| Born | 5 February 1951 |
| Occupation | Rationalist, sceptic, columnist and biochemistry professor |
| Website | Narendra Nayak's blog |
Narendra Nayak (born 5 February 1951) is a notable rationalist, sceptic, and godman debunker from Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
He is the current president of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA). He founded the Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association in 1976 and has been its secretary since then. He also found an NGO called Aid Without Religion in July 2011. He tours the country conducting workshops to promote scientific temper and showing people how to debunk godmen and frauds. He has conducted over 2000 such demonstrations in India, including some in Australia, Greece and England. He is also a polyglot who speaks 9 languages fluently, which helps him when he is giving talks in various parts of the country. He is the chairman of the online forum Nastik Nation.
Narendra Nayak was named after Swami Vivekananda (born Narendra Nath Datta). He has stated that seeing his father's business premises being repossessed by the bank and his father buying a lottery ticket on the advice of an astrologer to pay off the loan with the total confidence that it would get the first prize made him turn to rationalism. He married Asha Nayak, a lawyer in Mangaluru in a non-religious ceremony. Narendra Nayak started out working as a lecturer in the Department of biochemistry in the Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore in 1978. In 1982, he met Basava Premanand, a notable rationalist from Kerala, and was influenced by him.
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