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History Sadly Repeats Itself 22 Aug 2013 | 09:30 am
But History Will Remember Narendra Dabholkar With Respect The history of the progress of humankind is replete with attacks, murders of humiliation of rationalists who have stood their ground in suppo...
My Rationalist Brother Narendra Dabholkar – A Tribute 22 Aug 2013 | 05:09 am
We were at a National level advanced training program for demystifying miracles on the 20th of August when one of the activists of the Maharashtra Andha Shraddha Nirmulan Samithi who was a participant...
Dr.Narendra Dabholkar – A Tribute 21 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
Image Courtesy: antisuperstition.org Dr.Narendra Dabholkar, a well known rationalist and anti-superstition activist from Maharashtra was shot dead in Pune on 20th August 2013. He was the Founder of t...
A Report on the 24th Chennai Freethinkers’ Meet 4 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
The meet up this time was at an all new place – The Thyagaraya Nagar Social Club which had enough provisions to make presentations and a wonderful open discussion. A total of 13 members including 2 ne...
Deductive (and Inductive) Reasoning in the Game of Cluedo 28 Jul 2013 | 04:40 pm
The aim of this post is to explain deductive reasoning in an easy to understand manner, by using the example of the popular board game, Cluedo. It touches upon inductive reasoning also. It assumes som...
A Commoner’s Guide to Investigating Food-Related Poisoning 25 Jul 2013 | 06:39 pm
Another large food related incident in India and this time around it has taken the lives of 22 innocent children. We still are unclear about how the chemical ended up in the school lunch. However, In...
Gender Awareness and Confidence: An Interactive Session with Teenagers 20 Jul 2013 | 08:35 pm
For me being a part of Nirmukta, organizing monthly meets, the annual Thinkfest and meeting like minded people was very liberating and satisfying. So when the International Women’s Day celebrations in...
Developing Freethought in Andamans – Step One! 11 Jul 2013 | 04:56 am
When T.V.Manoj, the administrator of carvaka4india.com website and the former the editor of Bangalore Skeptic which later on got renamed as Indian Skeptic, who also works for the National Insurance Co...
Ashwini and the Dhyan Foundation 28 Jun 2013 | 04:47 am
Ashwini or “Yogi Ashwini”, as he prefers to call himself, came into contact with me by, what I should say, an accident. I had issued a challenge to the astrologers of India to predict the results of t...
Upanishads and the Poor Calibre of Hindu Apologists 20 Jun 2013 | 07:11 pm
A short entry on my blog Critical Sagacity entitled Major faults of the Vedas and the Upanishads received some responses from offended Hindus, but there was one comment-response which was particularly...
