Month: April 2015

An idealist, but never dogmatic Comrade Govind Pansare died late on Friday. While he was well-known in and around Kolhapur, he remains less known in the rest of Maharashtra and

 Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and rationalist Govind Pansare, 82, died in Mumbai on February 20, five days after he was shot at in Kolhapur. He and his

The dastardly assassination of Comrade Govind Pansare, the veteran 81-year old former CPI state secretary, national council member, trade union leader, eminent lawyer and prominent Marxist intellectual and writer –

In October 2009, I had written an investigative report on the Sanatan Sanstha for Tehelka, a week after a low intensity bomb went off in Goa, for which members of

A Hindu organization  the Sanatan Sanstha, is once again in the public eye after a low intensity blast that took place in Goa’s Madhgaon district on October 16, the eve

“There was a scientific study that showed vaccines cause autism.” “Actually, the researcher in that study lost his medical license, and overwhelming research since then has shown no link between

Yoga is to North America what McDonalds is to India: both are foreign implants gone native. The urban and suburban landscape of the United States is dotted with neighbourhood health

Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind. – Albert Einstein   The culture vultures belonging to the Sangh Parivar have long been preying on every kind

It is indeed a great honor to be invited to be the Chief Guest and be asked to deliver the Keynote Address for the National Seminar on “Recent Trends in

The Act was passed soon after the cruel death of Dr Narendra Dabholkar. Though Govt of Maharashtra did not support the Act whole heartedly while implementing the same, ANS took

Living with Values is the autobiography of Indian humanist philosopher and human rights activist Narisetti Innaiah (b. 1937). Historian of ideas Bill Cooke writes in his book A Wealth of