“A Navbharat Times postcard quotes Devkinandan Thakur as saying that Brahmins can conceive children without sexual intercourse using tantra and mantras.”
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Claim dated 18 Jan 2026.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
The news graphic is fabricated. Navbharat Times did not publish it, and there are no reports of Devkinandan Thakur making the statements attributed to him. Both Navbharat Times and Devkinandan Thakur have clarified on social media that the viral claim is false.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 18 January 2026. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 21 January 2026, 3 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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