Month: January 2019

For some reason or the other, various adversaries keep targeting me for attacks. Narendra Maharaja is one such person. He has a reason to hate me. In one of his

Dr. Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (1945-2013) is a well-known social activist and writer from Maharashtra who was gunned down on August 20, 2013, during his morning walk in Pune. It is

In his essay A Defence of Detective Stories, GK Chesterton had daringly proclaimed that civilisation itself is the most sensational of departures and the most romantic of rebellions, and that

Does Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti (ANiS) Oppose Only the Hindu Religion? This question is asked with the deliberate intention of discouraging ANiS activists and spawning prejudice in the minds of people.

History is replete with instances of social and moral critics paying with their lives for militating against the status quo. India lost four of them between 2013 and 2017. The

The term scientific outlook can be defined simply as understanding the causeeffect relationship of any incident or examining the cause effect relationship between two incidents. Going by this simple definition,

  The Hindutva leaders in Kerala must be daft or gifted with a wickedly brilliant sense of humour. Why else would they protest against the Supreme Court’s order to allow

How can I get a divine intervention for my career?Thats the question Ravi Ganne, a young investment banker in Bangalore, typed into Google seven years ago. His search results led

The recent outreach by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi seems to have succeeded in its principal objective: an image makeover for a niche audience. Thanks

You have probably never heard of William Kingdon Clifford. He is not in the pantheon of great philosophers perhaps because his life was cut short at the age of 33

By rationality, I normally mean what the Less Wrong people mean, the notion of having a picture in our minds, a map, a model, that matches up fairly well with

In 1801 the English poetSamuel Taylor Coleridgecalculated the impact ratio of scientists to poets thusly: the souls of 500 Sir Isaac Newtons would go to the making up of a

If anything seems self-evident in human culture, its the widespread presence of religion. People do religious stuff all the time; a commitment to gods, myths and rituals has been present

On Faith and Scienceis one of those books where the title says it all. Throughout the pages of this volume, the authors provide both historical and philosophical analyses of the