There was a protest meet held at Mangalore on the 20th Feb against violence in the name of "Protection of Culture".
Archive - February 2009
Science Versus Religion: A Report From The World Atheist Conference
TV Manoj presents the contrast between science and religion from Ms. Chandana Chakrabarti's talk at the World Atheist Conference in Vijayawada this year.
Witness To A Kidnapping
Meera Nanda recounts an incident she witnessed recently where a woman was attacked in broad daylight for religious reasons. Such incidents are on the rise in India.
Narendra Nayak’s Rationalist Tour of India- Part IV
The month of Feb started with a training program for an organisation called VICAS at Allahbad, funded by the NCSTC, a wing of the department of Science and Technology...
Johann Hari: Why should I respect these oppressive religions?
The article that started the Calcutta protests leading to the arrest of the editor and publisher of The Statesman. Republished with author's permission. Spread this article in protest!
Regurgitation
This article was originally posted on the SkepticBlog, it is posted here with the generous permission of the author, mentalist Mark Edward. Regurgitators are people who swallow objects then spit them back out.....
Victor Stenger on The Future of Naturalism
This an excellent interview of the author of “God: The Failed Hypothesis”. Victor Stenger looks at the idea that God is not required. A modern day extrapolation of Laplace’s famous alleged statement to Napoleon...
In the Name of Ayyappa
The name Ayyappa evokes many things- the bare chested devotees chanting the bhajans of Ayyappa....
Responding to the ‘Atheist Crimes’ of the 20th Century
Atheism is often accused of causing some of the most heinous crimes of the last century. But does this accusation hold up to reason?