Rationalists oppose State-sponsored Pushkaram

), commonly known as Periyar also referred as E. V. R. or Thanthai Periyar, was an Indian social activist, freedom fighter and politician who started the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam. Biography Born in 1879 into a rich family of ...

ONGOLE: Muncipal Commissioner S. Venkatakrishna on Sunday exhorted the rationalists to popularise the teachings of E.V. Ramasamy Periyar and other rationalists to lay the foundation for a humanist society. Taking part in the birth anniversary of ...

IANS/Hyderabad The Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments have come under flak from rationalists and atheists for spending public funds on ongoing Krishna Pushkaralu river festival. They alleged that the governments in both the ...

Harirampur (India) (AFP) - Sitting in her mud house in eastern India, Monica Besra vividly recalls the "blinding light" emanating from Mother Teresa's photo that she believes helped cure her cancer -- one of the two recognised miracles that ...

August 15 is the day to cheer. On this day, the nation celebrates freedom. This independence was extracted from the colonial rule of British. On this day, it is customary for every Indian to show his patriotism. The sense of nationalism gets ...

New Delhi : There's a new minority to contend with and, at a little over 33,000, they are fewer in number than the Parsis. But the unbelieving atheists - counted separately for the first time in Census 2011 - just cannot agree with the figure. To ...

BHUBANESWAR, July 26 -- Humanist to the core, Prof Dhaneswar Sahoo is the founder of the Odisha Rationalist Society. He is a retired teacher of philosophy after serving in different Government colleges of Odisha. He superannuated from the BJB ...

As the Vatican conferred sainthood on Mother Teresa, an organisation promoting scientific thinking on Sunday ridiculed Indian politicians for attending the canonisation ceremony that "promoted superstition" and asked them to distribute her pictures instead of ...

WE recently recorded the death of Abdul Sattar Edhi, who moved from British India to Pakistan and built his country's largest privately-run ambulance service. His rags-to-riches philanthropy story was unique in that he chose to remain in rags ...