Our resident mystics are of the decent kind who wouldn't want to harm anybody. But in India, despite their burgeoning modern industrial society, deep superstition and belief in malicious witchcraft is often just below the surface. So it camne about that a tantric sorcerer was challenged to harm a non- believer on television. Can the challenger survive?

(Late update: there's a rumour that Sanal Edamaruku was struck by lightning this morning...)