- (Hanumanthappa)Narasimhaiah(more popularly Hossur Narasimhaiah; 6 June 1920 – 31 January 2005) was an Indian physicist, educator, writer, freedom fighter and rationalist from Karnataka. Publically known as “HN”, he was the Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University and the president of the National Education Society. He was conferred the Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India in 1984. A self-proclaimed rationalist, he was a renowned skeptic. while in office, he constituted and chaired the “committee to Investigate Miracles and other verifiable superstitions” that led to public challenges of the miraculous claims of Hindu godmen, including Sathya Sai Baba and Sai Krishna. As a leader of the Karnataka legislators to investigate a black-magic curse called banamathi, he disproved the existence of such claims.
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