Month: July 2019

The commitment to reason and evidence that Narendra Dabholkar promoted throughout his life has not just lived on but grown after his assassination in 2013. Dabholkar had founded the Maharashtra

It was a dreary weekend afternoon when I went to watch the screening of Anand Patwardhans four-hour-long documentary,Reason(Vivekin Hindi). The expectation from Patwardhans movies is always that facts will be

On the streets of India andPakistan,a frightening message is being sent out: that courts must not rush in where politicians fear to tread. In matters of faith, courts must simply

Jayant Murthy says YES There was much angst early this month about the disgraceful remarks that have been over the last few years at the Indian Science Congress (ISC) meetings,

Why is it that everything is upside down, and all that happens in the name of religion is divisive, oppressive and morally repugnant? What can I do my friends, if

Religion as the highest part of humanity was a reiteration of a very ancient idea: the notion that politics cannot bring human flourishing and cant capture the full extent of

Atish Dabholkar physicist and head of high energy physics and cosmology division at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, said a national anti-superstition law is desirable, but

As the worlds first professor of complementary medicine, Dr. Edzard Ernst set out to apply rigorous scientific standards of evidence to find out which alternative medicine treatments worked and which

RSS has been critiqued for long for its divisive and fascist ideology. Its role in spreading hatred, communal violence, killings arson and loot, blasts has been pointed out by critics.

The recent announcement about the proposed establishment of the Bharatiya Shiksha Board in order to revitalise and teach Vedic education has had its usual share of supporters and sceptics. This

On The Award Of D.Litt To Sudha Mani Aka Mata Amritananda Mayi Dear Mr Vice Chancellor, Greetings from an alumnus of the university who got his Post graduation in biochemistry

If a lie is repeated often, it is said, people will eventually believe it. It is also said that people with simple thinking more readily believe bigger lies. Small lies,

The starting point for anti-Hindutva politics must be the distinction between Hinduism and Hindutva. Else, its doomed. Any rigid secular approach, unrestrained by considerations of electoralpolitics,could only lead to disapproval

While BJP trumpets Hindu nationalism in its election campaign, the question, Who are we? has been answered brilliantly by Tony Joseph in a new book, Early Indians: The Story of