Month: July 2010

One of the usual arguments of those who advocate the existence, not only of a god, but of one endowed with the qualities of kindness and goodness, is that such

I must have authored about a dozen books on different aspects of the movement ‘Eradication of Superstition’ by now. I am also fortunate enough to have received a large audience

It is generally presumed that most of the rationalists are easy chair philosophers who never bother about what is happening in and around their surroundings. But this may not be

The sudden appearance of Prophet Mohammed’s alleged footprint in the sleepy village of Dharabi near Chakwal has sent a wave of religious excitement across Pakistan. At a three-hour drive from

By now it’s safe to say that the Great Yoga Takeover of America is complete.  According to a 2008 Yoga Journal study, 15.8 million Americans engage in some form of

Twenty years back, the city  witnessed the making of a  Guinness Book of World Record, but for a social cause. Milind Deshmukh, a Maharashtra Andhashrdha Nirmulan Samiti (MANS) activist walked

This past weekend the world darkened with the loss of one of its brightest lights: Martin Gardner, polymath extraordinaire, founding father of the modern skeptical movement, and a friend.. The

WHILE many institutions collapsed during the Great Depression that began in 1929, one kind did rather well. During this leanest of times, the strictest, most authoritarian churches saw a surge