Editor’s Note: This story, Agni Pariksha, by Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose first appeared in the monthly “Dasi” (ed. Ramananda Chattopadhyay) in its May 1895 issue. Along with his other non-scientific papers and articles, it was published in 1922 as part of the book Abyakta (http://www.jcbose.ac.in/publication ). The book was received very well, and has been reprinted several times by different...