Babu Gogineni
Babu is the international director of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) based in London. The IHEU has Special Consultative Status at the U.N. Babu Gogineni has also worked with various humanist and freethought groups worldwide. In recent years he has partnered with activists, media persons and filmmakers to try and bring attention to the plight of those suffering because of religious prejudice and supersition in India and South Asia.
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Vinod Kumar Wadhawan
Dr. Vinod Kumar Wadhawan retired as Head of the Laser Materials Division of the Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, and is currently a Raja Ramanna Fellow at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. He is also an Associate Editor of the journal PHASE TRANSITIONS, published by Taylor & Francis, U.K. He has written two books, one on ferroic materials, and the other on smart structures. His current interest is in complexity, on which he is writing a book. He believes that consciousness is probably the ultimate manifestation of the evolution of complexity in the cosmos.
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Sundeep Peswani
Sundeep is an independent web and technology consultant living in Hong Kong. He is interested in the effect of technology in general and the social web in particular, and on belief systems and the promotion of rationalism. Sundeep is the Web Advisor for Nirmukta
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Sumitra Padmanabhan
Sumitra is the General Secretary of the Humanists’ Association of India. She has worked with many organizations and has written extensively on rationalist issues in India.
Sumitra is the Communications Director for Nirmukta in India. She has collaborated with Prabir on many projects and has translated many of his works.
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Srinivas Kakkilaya
Srinivas is a practicing physician and consultant based in Mangalore. He writes challenging alternative medical practices and various forms of quackery, at rationalmedicine.org, a site that he runs. His writings can also be found at spandanametabolics.com
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Narendra Nayak
Narendra is a retired professor of biochemistry from Mangalore. He is now well known as a full-time activist devoted to promoting rationalism.
He is the president of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations, an umbrella organization that co-ordinates between more than 50 free-thought groups in India. You can find more about Narendra’s work here.
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Prabir Ghosh 
Prabir is one of India’s most well known skeptics and the president of the Science and Rationalists Association of India
He has spent most of his life challenging the “miracle-men” and other con artists who dupe the masses for personal profit. A short biography can be found here. Prabir has written several books and has appeared in the mainstream media onseveral occasions.
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Ajita Kamal
Ajita is interested in the intersection between science and philosphy and on the implications of naturalism in culture and society. He is a writer and musician living in New York.
Ajita is the founder and administrator of Nirmukta. His writings on religion, science and society can be found at culturalnaturalism.org
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Manoj T.V
Manoj writes form Karnataka. He puts out a monthly magazine called Bangalore Skeptic and writes about religion and rationalism using observations that he makes on his travels.
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Meera Nanda
Meera is an accomplished researcher, philosopher and writer of scientific and social issues. She has written several books including Prophets Facing Backward and Postmodernism and Religious Fundamentalism. Meera Nanda’s latest book is The God Market- How Globalism is Making India more Hindu
Meera’s has been a champion of secularization in India and continues to write books and papers at a regular pace and give talks at secularism conferences around the world.
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Pankaj Kulkarni
Pankaj is a software executive from Bangalore. He writes about cultural issues involved in the transformation of our religion based society to a reason based one. His blog is at http://kulkarnipankaj.blogspot.com/
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Kedar Kulkarni
Kedar is a .NET programmer working for TCS. His interests include reading about evolution and evolutionary psychology, cheering for Liverpool FC and wanting to do something that can bring tangible benefits to the athiest cause. His blog is at http://kulkarnikedar.blogspot.com/
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Siddharth Singh
Siddharth Singh is an economics graduate from the University of Delhi. He proffers his services at a Development Research organization in New Delhi currently, and wishes to pursue studies further. The subjects that most interest his intellectual endeavors are economics, international relations, and socio-political change. He is a bibliophile, and he loves travelling and photography. His blog on economics, atheism and other issues can be found at Bigot Blog. Siddharth is the Director of Social Media for Nirmukta.
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K.P.S. Kamath
Dr. K.P.S. Kamath has been a psychiatrist in the U. S. since 1974. He is married to Geetha and has two grown-up boys. He graduated from Bangalore Medical College in 1969, came to the U. S. in 1970 and obtained his training in psychiatriy at Yale University affiliated program. Dr. Kamath has worked as medical director of several institutions in the U. S. A.
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