Obscurantism vs Science: Behind the Milk-Drinking Miracle

T. Jayaraman's Obscurantism vs Science: Behind the Milk-Drinking Miracle, written in 1995 by a theoretical physicist at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, is a scientific institution researcher's critical analysis of the 1995 Hindu milk drinking miracle, explaining the phenomenon as an effect of surface tension and capillary action rather than a supernatural event. Its authority rests on Jayaraman's scientific training and his direct engagement with the physical mechanism involved. It is an advocacy essay written from an explicitly rationalist standpoint rather than a neutral academic study, and it should be read as one side's argument in a real public debate, not as a religious studies account of what the event meant to those who witnessed it.