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AFP Photo: In this undated handout image provided by Sterling Hospitals, Prahlad Jani is pictured at the...
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Neurologist Sudhir Shah, who studied Jani in 2003 and is part of the new experiment, said that the extremely skinny but apparently active man faced round-the-clock observation. "Two stationary 24-hour video cameras have been set up in his room, while a mobile video camera follows him whenever he needs to step outside," he said. Jani, who dresses in red and wears a nose ring, grew up in Charod village in the Mehsana district in Gujarat and claims to have been blessed by a goddess aged eight, which has enabled him to survive without sustenance. Shah said that Jani told him the key to his survival was a mystical and unexplained process by which he receives drops of water through a hole in his palate. Analysis of data, to determine his secret or expose his fraudulence, will take at least two months, the doctors said. Fasting is a part of Indian culture, made famous by independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, who brought himself to the brink of death on several occasions by refusing food and water to protest against colonial rule. A monk from India's minority Jain religion -- devout followers of which undertake frequent fasts, sometimes to death -- claims to have deprived himself of food for one year, which is believed to be a record "If you're busy with something you don't feel hunger, thirst, or the heat and cold," said Sri Sahaj Muni Maharaj, who took daily glasses of warm water during his fast which ended on May 1998. "I'm busy contemplating the infinite," he told India's Outlook magazine one month before the end of his experiment.
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