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Science & Philosophy

  • Understanding Natural Phenomena 3: Quantum MechanicsMay 13, 20120

    Understanding Natural Phenomena 3: Quantum Mechanics

    The birth of our universe, namely the Big Bang, is described by scientists as a ‘quantum event’. What does that mean?

  • Murder in the Name of “Honour”April 29, 20120

    Murder in the Name of “Honour”

    Editor’s Note : A translation of this article in Polish is now available at the Racjonalista blog. An honest reflection on a draconian practice in our societies It was the spring of ’05, in the beautiful valley of Karora village in Northern Haryana, when the sun had bid farewell and the full moon accompanying by a cluster of stars appeared in the darkness, Manoj had fallen for Babli. Although this Haryana lad couldn’t figure out the extent of his fall, [...]

  • Understanding Natural Phenomena 2: The Big BangApril 6, 201222

    Understanding Natural Phenomena 2: The Big Bang

    According to the most acceptable scientific model at present, our universe was born ~13.7 billion years ago. A so-called ‘Big Bang’ occurred at the moment of the birth of the universe, and this moment was also the Time Zero for our universe.

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Pseudoscience & Religion

  • A Physicist’s Personal View of HomeopathyApril 16, 20129

    A Physicist’s Personal View of Homeopathy

    There are really two very different questions involved in any discussion of homeopathy: (i) Does it work? (ii) Is its formulation consonant with modern scientific methodology as we understand the latter phrase? These questions are only loosely related to each other. If we understand that clearly at the outset, almost all of the heat and noise that usually accompanies the debate can be avoided.

  • A Response to Dr. B.M. HegdeMarch 17, 201267

    A Response to Dr. B.M. Hegde

    This article is a rebuttal to the article Modern Medicine Has Given Illness Care a Miss by Dr. B.M. Hegde in the Open Page of The Hindu, dated February 18th, 2012. (The piece is in fact recycled from this almost identical piece by him from November 2010.)

  • Deconstructing the Inanity of Brahman and the Vedantic WorldviewFebruary 16, 201299

    Deconstructing the Inanity of Brahman and the Vedantic Worldview

    Of what use is this philosophy of the Upanishadas? The philosophy of the Upanishadas meant withdrawal from the struggle for existence by resort to asceticism and a destruction of desire by self-mortification.

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Freethought Activism

  • The Cosmic Boondocks- Episode #8, May 15, 2012May 16, 20120

    The Cosmic Boondocks- Episode #8, May 15, 2012

    This week we interview Bill lauritzen,author of The Invention of God ,who explains how several features of religion reveal themselves to be invention of man and an outcome of attempts at understanding natural events.

  • We and Section 295A of the IPCMay 7, 201215

    We and Section 295A of the IPC

    Section 295A, Indian Penal Code:  Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.— Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of  citizens of India, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise], insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of that class, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term [...]

  • Hang Death PenaltyMay 2, 201222

    Hang Death Penalty

    Death penalty – A historical and international perspective: Around 300 BCE, the pacifist Emperor Ashoka proposed alternative punishments to the death penalty in India., but did not ban it. In Japan the death penalty was abolished in 818 AD by Emperor Saga and this lasted for 338 years until 1156. Between the 9th and the 13th centuries, the Ukraine based Kiev Rus mostly replaced the death penalty with banishment, or payment of a fine. China which today executes more people [...]

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Humor & Creative Arts

  • Thoughts From A Secular HumanistApril 20, 201223

    Thoughts From A Secular Humanist

    I have no invisible authority I am not mentally enslaved, I am not an unworthy sinner Who is waiting to be saved. My actions are my own Responsibility for which I will take, Credit for the good and penalty for the bad The payment for my deeds only I can make. I’m not the innocent, confused child; ‘Humble’ messengers try to find, I’m a skeptic with adult reasoning Who has left Faith behind. The answers gifted by logic and reason [...]

  • A Debate between GenerationsMarch 5, 201223

    A Debate between Generations

    The year is 2032 CE and I have perhaps kicked the bucket much earlier. Ananya, my eight year old grand-daughter currently, has since become a Rocket scientist and she likes to discuss philosophical issues with her grandmother, my wife, whom she calls as “Avva” meaning Grandma in our mother tongue Telugu.

  • We’re free to share cards and flowers if we wishFebruary 14, 20123

    We’re free to share cards and flowers if we wish

    Our love’s more alive than any dead saint, But some Valentine’s cheer why not relish? These jolly rose hues won’t our culture taint! We’re free to share cards and flowers if we wish! Grown women and men don’t need to be taught, Their close relationships how to cherish! Why is this simple freedom so hard-fought? We’re free to share cards and flowers if we wish! Some faithful in whose eyes such fun is sin, Should first from their midst hatred banish! Sweet nothings sound better than hate-filled din. We’re free [...]

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