Month: January 2017

Feed back received from Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (ANS) activists indicate that there has been tremendous response from school going children from all over Maharashtra to say NO emphatically to crackers

I had a friend who used all kinds of questionable treatments including homeopathy. I asked her how she decided what to try. She said if a friend told her something

What is Rationalism? In Epistemology (the branch of philosophy studying the nature, sources and limits of knowledge) Rationalism is the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of

The bookThe Role Of The Bhagavad Gita In Indian Lifewas written by Premnath Bazaz (a Kashmiri Pandit and freedom fighter). I have searched high and dry for this book with

Let me assume hypothetically that Mahabharat is real history and Krishna was a god in human form: Gitopadesh and Reality check When we discuss the Gita, the thing that strikes

Ravi Shankars first major tryst with organised spirituality was a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who took an immediate shine to him. The next thing he knew, he was whisked

The politicians and the priests have always been in deep conspiracy, they have divided man. The politician rules the outside and the priest rules the inside: the politician the exterior

M.M. Kalburgi, former vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Karnataka, renowned author and opponent of idol worship, was shot dead by two unidentified men on 30 Aug (2015). Indian rationalists have

I loved magic shows when I was a kid. I remember being absolutely fascinated by mysterious events and the possibility that some of us might possess supernatural powers such as

On October 25 (2016) the seven member Supreme Court Bench started hearing to revisit Hindutva cases. These are group of cases where the use of term Hindutva-Hinduism to be used

As the Supreme Court considers aspects of the debate between religion and politics and what constitutes a violation of the founding principles of the Representation of the People Act, attention

Sagan: Its not that pseudoscience and superstition and new-age (so called) beliefs and fundamentalist zealotry are something new. Theyve been with us for as long as weve been human. But,

It’s been 68 years since we’ve been calling India a free country. But besides changing the colour and design of the flag and the accents of those in power, what