Rationalists pledge to promote scientific temper

It took less than a day after the massacre of staffers, policemen , a visitor and a security guard at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris for the discussion in India to swing back towards the need for "responsibility." Kiran Bedi, former senior ...

In a scene from the recently-released film, PK, Aamir Khan is left clutching a single shoe belonging to his friend Sanjay Dutt, after a blast caused by religious fanatics kills him. An alien, unused to religious diversity and the accompanying ...

QUEEN'S ROAD : Rationalists in the city have challenged astrologer Sachidananda Babu after he predicted on television how and when individuals of certain sun signs might be raped. M Sreedhara Murthy, who is a part of Indian Sceptics, a group ...

Almost two decades ago, while working as a journalist in Kolkata, the eastern Indian city where Nobel laureate Mother Teresa made her home, I was asked by rationalists to write an exposé on "Egg Baba," a man they claimed was a fraud from ...

India conducted a nuclear test centuries ago; cow urine can cure diabetes and ancient India was adept at genetics and plastic surgery. These and more such incredible achievements datelined ancient India have come from votaries of Hindu culture. ...

There is a bigger design at work in aggressively promoting the ancient Indian language and luring youth with the bait that it will help them achieve status On the face of it the Sanskrit Shikshak Sangh (SSS), a teachers association, seems to ...

Prof Narendra Nayak says magazine attack a direct assault on freedom of expression Prof Narendra Nayak, president of Federation of Rationalist Association of India in Mangaluru, who was featured in the Sept 2013 issue of French magazine 'Charlie ...

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In the European world, freedom of expression and creativity is holier than any religious symbolism while in the Muslim world religious symbols are considered sacred to such an extent that blasphemy is still a question of life and death Dr Haider ...