CHARVAKA

Rationalism. Secularism. Freedom

FIRA Challenge

  • Beyond Bodily Needs

    NARENDRA NAYAK

    This article exposes the biological impossibility of inedia and “solar living” claims. The author refutes pseudoscientific breatharians through physiological laws of metabolism and nitrogen fixation, illustrating how flawed clinical supervision, trickery, and nationalist agendas sustain these hoaxes, while offering a strict one-week rationalist protocol to thoroughly debunk any fasting claimant.

  • Astrology Flops Again

    NARENDRA NAYAK

    This article documents the outcome of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations’ 2009 Lok Sabha election prediction challenge. Prof. Narendra Nayak details how 400 entries—including predictions from astrologers, religious zealots, and divine claimants—failed miserably to meet the 80% accuracy threshold, once again proving astrology to be unscientific guesswork.

  • One Million Rupees to Predict Election Results!

    NARENDRA NAYAK

    This official handout from the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations details a one-million-rupee challenge for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Aimed at astrologers and claimants of supernatural powers, the competition required participants to accurately answer twenty-five specific election outcomes with at least eighty percent accuracy to earn the reward money.