When he started his Facebook page, Nihilanand, last February, 27-year-old Raphael Samuel, a Mumbai resident, did not foresee the kind of traction he would get within the next year. His first post says it all: 'You don't owe your parents anything'.

But, Samuel, an anti-natalist (a philosophy that argues that people should abstain from procreation) has in the last 10 days given over 50 interviews to media channels across the world - from Australia to Brazil - after his plan to sue his parents (for Rs 1) for giving birth to him went viral.