Worldwide scientific consensus warns of climate disaster and has made an urgent call for action. Yet, the Trump administration has doubled down on its effort to suppress the science around climate change, burying

Dear friends, I am Avinash Patil, Executive President of Maharashtra Andhashradha Nirmulan Samiti, India. I am here to receive the prestigious Avijit Roy Courage Award, 2019 on the behalf my

Dear Rationalist comrades and the fraternity, Our warm Greetings to you from Tamil Nadu, the Land of Periyar! Let me first of all salute our great Narendra Dabholkar for his

Rationalists in the Indian state of Maharashtra have marked the 30th anniversary of their founding with an international conference and celebration. Members ofMaharashtra Andhshraddha Nirmulan Samiti,Maharashtra Anti-Superstition Society (MANS) gathered

On Friday ( 9 August 2019) visitors entered the heavily guarded premises of Mulunds Mahakavi Kalidas Natyamandir with vegetable seeds embedded In their identity cards and exited with war cries

Critical thinking, or the right to question authority or go against a majoritarian view, may not be in vogue in the country these days, but valuing the individuals freedom to

(The original article is abridged for better readability – Editor) It is quite interesting that the word “humanism” came into existence relatively recently. It was used by F. Niethammer to

It is an honour to be here, at the invitation of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samitee, to deliver the First Dr. Narendra Dabholkar Memorial Lecture. I wouldnt say Im happy

Here are two claims you might hear quite often, in most parts of the world today. One: that rationalism is needed more than ever. Two: that human beings are not

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