“…So help me God.”, concludes the oath of office of the President of the United States. “I…do swear in the name of God…”, begins one text of the Oath of Office for every Constitutional office-bearer in the Republic of India…
Here’s a comment from a Hindu apologist on Facebook: “A strange place these atheists and their groups and discussions…..they flaunt their language and persuasion and knowledge and reason.. But they fear and tremble before fundamentalist religions like Islam….they don’t even…
Sisters and brothers of India, This is being written at a time when the highest office-bearers of our nation seem beholden to avowed Gandhians and at a time when a supposed latter-day Satyagraha is moving millions towards a revolution….
Millions of Hindu extremists and us Indian Atheists have something in common. We can all stand together and celebrate our civil-society-given right to be offended. For Hindu extremists, being offended is nothing new. This time the occasion is a woman…
The previous write up about the home for HIV positive children tugged the heart strings of many, many people. We have received donations from people from all over the world. When A.S.Vijetha, an engineer with ANZ Operations and Technology read…
The teachings of a recently deceased Indian preacher have been hailed as ‘inspirational to millions’, by spokespersons of the State as well as the mainstream media, and he has been encomiastically credited with being an advocate of ‘universal values’. Sympathizers of…
I should say I am pretty hard-boiled, having worked for many years in the field of clinical biochemistry, that too for the first years as a technical assistant collecting blood specimens from a variety of patients, which has inured me…
The Indian Atheists Page on Facebook provides to its administrators statistical data on Page usage and demographics. I have taken the demographics stats as they currently stand and am making this data available to the community. Sex-Ratio and Age :…
Lincoln’s litmus test: Abraham Lincoln is said to have devised this litmus test of human character: “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Let us try applying Lincoln’s test,…
RSVP on the Facebook Events Page (Click Here) The recent freethinker meets in Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai and New Delhi were successful. Now it is Hyderabad’s turn. Date: Sunday 20th Feb, 2011 Time: 3.30 PM Location: Cafe Coffee Day, Life…
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