22 Facts About Narendra Nayak

Narendra Nayak was born on 5 February 1951 and is a rationalist, sceptic, and godman debunker from Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

Narendra Nayak founded the Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association in 1976 and has been its secretary since then.

Narendra Nayak founded an NGO called Aid Without Religion in July 2011.

Narendra Nayak has conducted over 3500 such demonstrations in India, including some in Australia, Greece, England, Norway, Denmark, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Narendra Nayak is a polyglot who speaks 9 languages fluently, which helps him when he is giving talks in various parts of the country.

Narendra Nayak 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.

Narendra Nayak 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.

Karnataka State Police withdrew his security wherein Narendra Nayak was quoted to say that it was an open invitation by forces to finish him.

Narendra Nayak decided to take on full-time anti-superstition activism in 2004 when he heard that a girl had been sacrificed in Gulbarga in Karnataka.

Narendra Nayak was an assistant professor of biochemistry when he took voluntary retirement on 25 November 2006, after working there for 28 years.

Narendra Nayak has been a regular columnist at the newspaper Mangalore Today since its inception.

Narendra Nayak serves on the editorial board of the Folks Magazine.

Narendra Nayak has admitted to have been attacked for his activism a few times.

Narendra Nayak has stated that his scooter's brake wires were once found severed, after an astrologer predicted his death or injury.

Narendra Nayak was involved in fighting against Midbrain activation, an alleged modern technique that enables students to see objects despite being blindfolded.

An unfazed Narendra Nayak suspected foul play and with a great presence of mind drove all the way to a nearby gas station and saw that everything was in order.

Narendra Nayak suspected that this attempt on his life could possibly be the repercussions to his fight for the justice of the slain RTI activist Vinayak Baliga, who was murdered exactly a year previous to this episode.

Narendra Nayak continues to have personal gunman handed over by Mangalore Police till date.

Narendra Nayak holds the opinion that well-known scientists should be convinced to join the cause and form pressure groups against pseudoscience.

Narendra Nayak is lobbying for a bill for the separation of state and religion to be introduced in the Indian parliament.

Narendra Nayak was the guest of honour during the launch event of the book Bandh Samrat - Tales of Eternal Rebel written on George Fernandes's early trade union activities in Mangalore and Bombay.