This event was organized by the Orissa Rationalist Association in Rourkela on 10 and 11 October, 2009.

Prabir Ghosh, General Secretary of Science & Rationalist Association of India was invited as the chief guest to handover the certificates and mementos to the winners of the inter-school competition on scientific outlook being arranged by the Orissa Rationalist Association for the last 10 years. Read the full story

The Times Online is reporting this story about Hindus and Christians killing each other in the state of Orissa, in Eastern India. Many lives have been lost and thousands of people have lost all property and loved ones and remain in hiding. This story comes at the heels of a spate of communal terrorist acts that has hit India in the recent months. The government is powerless to act because the poison that religion is, it seeps into the very machinery that is meant to protect the people from the ideological elements. Here is an excerpt from the Article:

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