OUT CAMPAIGN – INDIA

Our choir is large, but much of it remains in the closet. Our repertoire may include the best tunes, but too many of us are mouthing the words sotto voce with head bowed and eyes lowered. It follows that a major part of our consciousness-raising effort should be aimed, not at converting the religious but at encouraging the non-religious to admit it – to themselves, to their families, and to the world. This is the purpose of the OUT campaign.

Richard Dawkins

The OUT CAMPAIGN is the largest coordinated effort reaching out to non-believers in the history of the planet. It is organized by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, and has since its inception become a worldwide movement to popularize Atheism as an identity that all non-believers can rally around.

The website for the campaign contains a declaration outlining its main tenets. In solidarity with Atheists worldwide and the Richard Dawkins Foundation, Nirmukta members have come together on the forums to create OUT CAMPAIGN – INDIA, a project that aims to translate the original OUT CAMPAIGN declaration into all regional languages. In addition, we have also put together two videos as a tribute to great Indian Atheists, to promote awareness of the great atheistic minds that have contributed to modern India. We hope that OUT CAMPAIGN – INDIA will drive an upsurge in Atheists coming out about their non-belief in India.

Here are the regional Indian languages into which the OUT CAMPAIGN has been translated by Nirmukta members (Follow links for translated versions and credits):

Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi.