Vir, I appreciate your yet another attempt in your article “Godmen: No better than magicians” by pointing to the parallels with Sai Baba. You are right, as in case of mind reading, materializations etc. which is termed a ‘miracle’ and can be reproduced -with more skill- by any moderately talented magician. Sai Baba now has defiantly evolved beyond these magicians and tricksters (while many haven’t and still associate him with these cheapsters). HE runs Hospital and Colleges where facilities are given free of cost. He provides water to parched throats in many villages around Puttaparti and even Chennai. The Cardio and Neuro surgeries costing over a lakh is done everyday to more then 10 patients in each of these hospitals irrespective of patient considering him God man or fraud. His followers continue to help the downtrodden in their own possible way in almost every city in India and all over the world. THIS MAMMOTH TASK (which stuns and shocks critics to silence) CANNOT BE REPRODUCED. I would more than just suggest you, to try taking a look into the work being done, evolve {if possible}`or show everyone a single individual or organization taking steps to reproduce this “MIRACLE” …..hoping even this bridge (of society reformation) will be crossed by many…. …least next generation will see a better world.. someone stop these GODMEN.. show the world more reformers ARJUN