We live in a fiercely competitive era. The competition has progressively intensified due to several causes. There is always a basic animal instinct to survive, to grab resources, to create

Dear Humanist leading lights and friends all around the world, I feel honored to come to the land of the earliest Atheists and Humanists in the world. Similarly, I feel

Well if we go to the term rationalism in the development of humanity, we would have to go a long way back right to the times of the cavemen, the

Perspective: Let me at the outset thank the Maharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti (MANS) for organizing this international conference. The question that we shall discuss has an international dimension but I

My political journey and thereby my social intervention has been to work towards a society with equality, social, economic and political. This is what made me to arrive at the

Atheist Centre, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh is immensely happy to be associated with Maharashtra Andh Shraddha Nirmulan Samithi in the International Conference scheduled to be held in Mumbai on August 9,

Rationalism Rationalism is any view appealing toreasonas a source of knowledge or justification. In more technical terms it is a method or atheoryin which the criterion of the truth is

Show them a comet with a red tail, scare them out of their wits, and theyll rush out of their houses and break their legs. But try making one rational

Lets be clear: pseudo-sciences kills. And they are being employed with total impunity thanks to European laws that protect them. They kill thousands of people, with names and family. People

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