The killing of Professor Maleeshappa Madhivallapa Kalburgi on 30th August 2015 came as a severe jolt to all those who are for an open, liberal society, who uphold the values

Thinking about the modern scientific method became a part of my learning when I turned 18 and had started studies in an engineering college. Reading books like ‘Sense and Nonsense

Lokayat – Barhaspatya – Charwak Mat  All the above three are the names of the selfsame philosophy of life propounded by the Charwaks who refuted religion. What they denied were

The book, Rashtriya Mahapurush Bharat Ratna Dr B R Ambedkar, written in Gujarati by Dalit scholar P A Parmar, was selected by the state government’s Department of Social Justice &

Following the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC)’s ingenious decision to change the name of Aurangzeb Road, one of those leafy avenues in Lutyens’ Delhi (note to self: stop invoking Lutyens,

The cliche, “Religion is opiate of people,” has been around for over two hundred years. No doubt, religion has given solace to billions of aching souls for several thousand years,

What is rationalism? Rationalism is a philosophy which regards reasons to be the chief source and test of knowledge. Rationalists believe that every human problem can be solved in the

An Interview with Michael Shermer   Harris: You appear to believe, as I do, that morality can (and should) arise out of a concern for the well-being of conscious creatures.

Two major newspapers did what all mainstream media do best: Get the story wrong. The New York Times published “The Evolution of the God Gene” by Nicholas Wade in which

The emotional dust due to killing of Dr. Narendra Dabholkar raised might have settled down by this time. It is high time now that we look at him with a

Has India’s mainstream media decided to pay mere lip service to the Constitution’s fundamental values of secularism and liberalism while ignoring daily attacks on them by the Sangh Parivar, an

The   mythological tale of the demon Bhasmasur is well-known. On whosever’s head he would put his palm on was burnt to ashes. It appears that now-a-day it is the Sangh

In contemporary times, religions’ identity is being used as cover for political agenda. Be it the terrorist violence or the sectarian nationalism in various parts of the World, religion is

In our world today, there is much which has become globalized — the clothes we wear, the food we eat, the films we watch, the songs we dance to, and