Month: July 2016

Science is progressing at breakneck speed. The notion that man can understand the rules of nature and use them for his own benefit is a recent one in history, and

Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Vartapatra (ANV) is not just a house journal trumpeting the achievements and programs of Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, a movement lead by Late Dr Narendra Dabholkar in Maharashtra. ANV

“. . . There were 113,11,50,000 nonreligious people in the world in 2010, and that number is expected to increase to 123,03,40,000 by the year 2020.”  Free Inquiry Atheist Centre

Despite expressing its intent to pass a law to prevent superstitious practices at the start of its term in 2013, the Congress government in Karnataka remains undecided on tabling a bill that

The Karnataka government has done a volte-face again on the anti-superstition bill by removing some key practices, including Made Made Snana, from the list. Bowing to pressure from mutts and

The suicide of Rohith Vemula is being met with two kinds of responses – while the Dalit and Progressive sections are calling it an ‘institutionalized murder’, where a Dalit boy

As we welcome the New Year (2016) with hope and optimism, the events of the year gone by flash to our mind, those events which going to have influences in

Bullet cartridges in the three killings suggest a common set of killers, accused Sameer Gaikwad and Rudra Patil likely to be commonly involved; Sanatan Prabhat the organ of Sanathan Sanstha

(‘Pradnya Daya Pawar’is a renowned figure in Indian literature. There are very few writers who break  the barriers laid down by the establishment to put forth visions and glimpses of

Why were Dr Narendra Dabholkar and Comrade Govind Pansare gunned down? Not because they had adopted an insular, narrow-minded stand against another such equally insular and narrow minded position; what

The other day when pope held an all-religion meeting at the site of 9/11 Monument in New York City. A young Hindu woman uttered the following ancient Sūtra: Asato Ma