Thought And Action

Archive

2018, October
1. Scientific Temper & Political Discourse - Nitin Desai
2. The Politics of Indian Pseudoscience and What We Need to Do to Tame It - Jaya Ramchandani
3. What Makes People Distrust Science? Surprisingly, Not Politics - Bastiaan T Rutjens
4. What is it like to be a Human? - Colin McGinn
5. India never had a golden age: Interview with Prof. D.N. Jha, historian - Ziya Us Salam
2018, July
1. Training Course in Exorcism - Dr. Hamid Dabholkar
2. Democracy or Babacracy - Dr. Hamid Dabholkar
3. Industrial Air Pollution Clean-Up Is On Its Way In 2018 - John Hawthorne
4. Science and Pseudoscience - Harriet Hall, M.D.
5. The Myth of the Indian Aviator - Lhendup G Bhutia
6. This Multibillion-Dollar Corporation Is Controlled by a Penniless Yoga Superstar - Ben Crair
7. Why the ‘Right to Believe’ Is Not a Right to Believe Whatever You Want - Daniel DeNicola
8. Why Do Smart People Do Foolish Things? - Heather A. Butler
9. ‘Good bye’ to our Saints - Sharad Bedekar
10. Are Reason and Religion Mutually Exclusive? - Ruth Jackson
11. She didn’t see it coming: psychic arrested for $800,000 fraud - Arwa Mahdawi
12. FROM E-MAIL BOX -
13. Because I Am a Girl, I Must Study - Kamla Bhasin
2018, April
1. Science should have the last word - Jayant V. Narlikar
2. With Ministers like These, Every Day Must Be Science Day - Vasudevan Mukunth
3. What It Means to Reject Evolution, in the Words of a 1982 Judgment - S.K. Arun Murthi
4. The Karnataka Anti-Superstition Act and its Impact - Narendra Nayak
5. Charwak Darshan; The most vilified philosophy - Sharad Bedekar
6. Hindutva calling itself a version of Hinduism is problematic - Romila Thapar
7. Treated ‘worse than animals’: - Michael Safi
8. The Madness of Honor Killing -
9. What is the Soul, Anyway? - Michael Shermer
10. How to Talk to a Science Denier without Arguing - Gleb Tsipursky
11. Where’s the Proof That Mindfulness Meditation Works? - Bret Stetka
12. Beyond the Ugly Practices of Organised Religion - Avijit Pathak
2018, January
1. Karnataka Assembly passes anti-superstition bill -
2. Across the aisle: The killed and the killers - P Chidambaram
3. Politics of divine intervention - Venkatesh Ramkrishnan
4. Demystifying the Indian guru and his psycho-social relationship with millions of followers -
5. Godmens Own Country - Meera Nanda
6. In the Name of Faith - Meera Nanda
7. Panacea at a Price - Ravi Sharma
8. The Paradox in Tamil Nadu - Ilangovan Rajsekharan
9. Third Eye of Nirmal Baba -
10. Maharashtra’s ‘Ram Rahim’ Swami Krishna Patil: For women, his verbal abuse was ‘prasad’ - Santosh Wagh
11. Journey of Baba Ramdev from Godman to Business Tycoon - Rajesh Ghadge
12. Holy Men Theirs and Ours - Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
13. Why Secularism in India Is Under Serious Threat - Ritu Menon
2017, October
1. Act on Prevention of Social Boycott -
2. After 27-yr-long struggle to be accepted, couple takes caste panchayat head on - Chandan Haygunde
3. Answer Us, Uttara Kodi, Jawab Do -
4. Struggle to Preserve Democracy - Megha Pansare
5. Obsession with Rape Accused Babas - Bhavdeep Kang
6. Ahimsa at Odds - K S Jacob
7. Freedom from Superstition and Unreason - Hamid Dabholkar