The main focus of the 37-year-old doctor and psychiatrist is to dispel the application of magical remedies for medical problems. He works with the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Sameeti (MANS) set up by his father, slain rationalist and anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar. Hamid and his elder sister,Mukta , are clear that they are not the only inheritors of their fathers campaign. Ideology is not hereditary and the reins of MANS are in the hands of executive president Avinash Patil. Hamid oversees an MANS cell called Friends of Mind. Most people who seek babas and tantriks could have mental disease. Our volunteers are trained to provide emotional First Aid and then guide to a rational path of psychiatry or counselling, if needed, he said. , Mukta, an educationist, works at uprooting superstitious belief at the childhood level. The organisation has a scientific temperament cultivating cell and Mukta trains teachers to conduct these classes in schools. The idea is to have kids start a conversation with their parents about superstitious practices.
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The main focus of the 37-year-old doctor and psychiatrist is to dispel the application of magical remedies for medical problems. He works with the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Sameeti (MANS) set up by his father, slain rationalist and anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar. Hamid and his elder sister,Mukta , are clear that they are not the only inheritors of their fathers campaign. Ideology is not hereditary and the reins of MANS are in the hands of executive president Avinash Patil. Hamid oversees an MANS cell called Friends of Mind. Most people who seek babas and tantriks could have mental disease. Our volunteers are trained to provide emotional First Aid and then guide to a rational path of psychiatry or counselling, if needed, he said. , Mukta, an educationist, works at uprooting superstitious belief at the childhood level. The organisation has a scientific temperament cultivating cell and Mukta trains teachers to conduct these classes in schools. The idea is to have kids start a conversation with their parents about superstitious practices.
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