Month: October 2015

The esteemed literary scholar M M Kalburgi was shot dead outside his home in Dharwad on 30 Aug 2015, producing a wave of speculation on the identity and motive of

The killing of Professor Maleeshappa Madhivallapa Kalburgi on 30th August 2015 came as a severe jolt to all those who are for an open, liberal society, who uphold the values

Thinking about the modern scientific method became a part of my learning when I turned 18 and had started studies in an engineering college. Reading books like ‘Sense and Nonsense

Lokayat – Barhaspatya – Charwak Mat  All the above three are the names of the selfsame philosophy of life propounded by the Charwaks who refuted religion. What they denied were

The book, Rashtriya Mahapurush Bharat Ratna Dr B R Ambedkar, written in Gujarati by Dalit scholar P A Parmar, was selected by the state government’s Department of Social Justice &

Following the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC)’s ingenious decision to change the name of Aurangzeb Road, one of those leafy avenues in Lutyens’ Delhi (note to self: stop invoking Lutyens,

The cliche, “Religion is opiate of people,” has been around for over two hundred years. No doubt, religion has given solace to billions of aching souls for several thousand years,

What is rationalism? Rationalism is a philosophy which regards reasons to be the chief source and test of knowledge. Rationalists believe that every human problem can be solved in the

An Interview with Michael Shermer   Harris: You appear to believe, as I do, that morality can (and should) arise out of a concern for the well-being of conscious creatures.

Two major newspapers did what all mainstream media do best: Get the story wrong. The New York Times published “The Evolution of the God Gene” by Nicholas Wade in which