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Narendra Nayak was born on 5 February, 1951 in Mangalore, Karnataka, India, is an Indian activist (born 1951). Discover Narendra Nayak's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Rationalist, sceptic, columnist and biochemistry professor
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 5 February, 1951
Birthday 5 February
Birthplace Mangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality India

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1951

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

Nayak is the current president of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations (FIRA).

1976

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

1978

Nayak started out working as a lecturer in the Department of biochemistry in the Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore in 1978.

1982

In 1982, he met Basava Premanand, a notable rationalist from Kerala, and was influenced by him.

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

1991

The Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations has been conducting such challenges since 1991.

2000

He has conducted over 2000 such demonstrations in India, including some in Australia, Greece, England, Norway, Denmark, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

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

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.

2004

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.

2006

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

2009

Before the general election in 2009, Nayak laid an open challenge to any soothsayer to answer 25 questions correctly about the forthcoming elections.

The prize was set at ₹1000000 (about US$15000).

About 450 responses were mailed to him, but none were found to be correct.

2011

He also founded 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.

Through the organisation named Aid Without Religion which was registered in July 2011, he has been helping people and institutions where there are no religious rituals, superstitious practices, unscientific systems of medicine and such supernatural beliefs.

The registration was done at Rahu Kalam, a time of the day which is the most inauspicious – so it was a double rather a triple whammy, a Saturday, new moon day that too in the month of Ati which is considered to be the most unlucky time and at Rahu Kalam!

He has been featured on National Geographic's television show Is it real?.

He has also appeared on the Discovery Channel.

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

He also serves on the editorial board of the Folks Magazine.

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

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

He was a close associate to Gauri Lankesh, M. M. Kalburgi, and Narendra Dabholkar; all three like-minded and were assassinated in a more-or-less similar fashion.

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

2013

During May 2013 Karnataka state assembly election, disappointed at the challenge being one-sided, Nayak had decided against the idea of challenging astrologers this time.

But when a Bengaluru-based astrologer Shankar Hegde made claims to predict the election results accurately, he received the challenge.

Nayak offered to hand over a cheque of Rs.10 lakh (after deducting taxes as applicable under income Tax Act), if 19 out of the 20 results were proven right.

However, later on astrologer Hegde did not turn up.

2017

In March 2017, there was an attempt on Narendra Nayak's life.

During the early morning hours, while on his way to the Mangala swimming pool in his car, he was approached by two unidentified men in a bike wearing helmets and hinted that his tyres were punctured.

An unfazed 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.

He immediately filed a Police Complain.

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.

Nayak's personal gunman was on holidays.

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