In 2012, a leafy suburb of Mumbai witnessed something that was at once termed a miracle by the faithful -– the toes of Jesus Christ were dripping water. Edamaruku inspected the statue and declared it was due to capillary action and not divine intervention. While he was at a TV studio providing details of his discovery, a crowd gathered outside, armed with sticks. Soon, he was on the run, chased by the Catholic Secular Forum that slapped blasphemy charges on him. He applied for anticipatory bail but it was rejected. The penal provisions involving blasphemy are strict, drafted as they were by the colonial British. He had to decide — to stay and be murdered or to flee. Currently, he is hiding in Finland. Oswald Gracias – the anti-gay Archbishop of Mumbai who believes in exorcism, and who recently extracted a grovelling apology from stand-up comics of All India Bakchod – told Edamaruku things would get back to normal if he were to apologise to the Catholic Church. To his credit, Edamaruku refused. The result? He spends his life cooped up in a small apartment in Helsinki. A few years ago, a friend of Edamaruku pleaded with him to return to India, allaying fears of persecution and death at the hands of fanatics. That friend was Dabholkar.