When Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani famously said of the media during the Emergency that “when asked to bend, they crawled”, he received widespread praise from the intelligentsia and

Close on the heels of the jubilant celebrations of the One hundred years of the Dravidian Movement, we are happy to juxtapose certain excerpts from the ‘A Hundred Years of

At 7.20 a.m. on August 20, 2014,  supporters of the courageous and gritty rationalist Narendra Dabholkar will gather near the Omkareshwar Temple in Pune, where he was gunned down while

Every time a play ended-sometimes in the middle of it too-the 1500-plus people present at the Manohar Mangal Karyalay in Pune burst into applause. Gathered here for a programme to

(Ten months after the killing of noted rationalist Narendra Dabholkar, we are none the wiser about his killers. Ashish Khetan visits Pune and Mumbai to reconstruct a near-perfect murder and

It defies credulity that the Maharashtra Police have come to rely on supernatural mumbo-jumbo  in the investigation of the murder of Dr. Narendra Dabholkar. It is particularly ironic in the

Many Social Activists used to ask Dr. Dobholkar, “Your organization has spread to every nook and corner of Rural Maharashtra and attracts attention of the media with constantly ongoing innumerable

‘Spirits and demons are only projections of man’s own emotional impulses.  “Totem and Taboo” Sigmund Freud (1913)   Failure in Love, Evil-Eye of the Enemy, Lack of Progeny, Loss in

The phenomenon of God is probably the most complex one in the World. For believers there is a range of belief system about the supernatural powers. For agnostics it is

It was a delight to see a new book on ‘ethics as the foundation of business’. As one of IIM-A Business Books, this book on “Being Ethical” covers vital aspects

That day the astrologer was studying the almanac. Then Uncle (खट्टर काका!) suddenly came there. When the astrologer saw him, he was in trepidation and began to pack up the

We’re making a sizable dent in the glass ceiling, managing home and work with the dexterity of accomplished jugglers and have access to breaking news in health and technology. Yet,

The world still has its handful of superstitions and mystical, pre-Enlightenment religious beliefs do still hold sway in society. In some Asian cultures the vast number and the disturbing depth

Professor Richard Dawkins has questioned whether telling children fairy tales could be harmful because they “inculcate a view of the world which includes supernaturalism”. The evolutionary biologist, a leading atheist