Prabir Ghosh

Prabir Ghosh was born in 1945 in Faridpur (Now in Bangladesh). He was the founder and president of Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samiti, a science and rationalists’ association based in Kolkata, India.

He completed his secondary education in Kharagpur. Later his father settled in Dum Dum, Kolkata, in 1960. Ghosh completed graduation from Dum Dum Motijheel College. On 1 March 1985, Ghosh along with other Kolkata-based Bengali rationalists founded the Bharatiya Bigyan O Yuktibadi Samiti. He organized a long-term campaign against people with so-called supernatural powers. Once he got involved in a controversy over his psychology degree. In 1999, Prabir Ghosh quit his job at the State Bank of India.

He was the author of a number of books in Bengali disputing supernatural claims and was well known for his book series titled Aloukik Noy, Loukik.