Editing Basava Premanand (section)

==Early life==
In the 1940s, Premanand quit school to take part in the [[Quit India Movement]]. With that his traditional schooling ended. His next seven years were spent in the newly started Sri-Steila Gurukula, where the [[Santiniketan|Shantiniketan-Wardha]] brand of education was imparted.<ref name="NIC">{{cite news|url=http://www.vichar.nic.in/allinthegame/individual_30.asp |title=National Awardees for Science Popularisation |publisher=NIC |accessdate=2008-05-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410063512/http://vichar.nic.in/Allinthegame/individual_30.asp |archivedate=10 April 2009 |df=dmy }}</ref>  He was strongly influenced by [[Helena Blavatsky]] in his early years and in 1976 met the [[Sri Lanka]]n skeptic [[Abraham Kovoor]] during his Miracle Exposure lecture tour in India. Since then, Premanand became a [[Critics of Theosophy|critic of Theosophy]], and succeeded Kovoor after he died in 1978.<ref name=Outlook>{{cite web|title=The Spell Breaker|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?262445|publisher=Outlook|accessdate=25 June 2013|author=Rahul Singh|date=2 November 2009}}</ref>