We reproduce an email received from Mr. Prabhakar Nanawathy, Editor of “Thought & Action”, the organ of Andhashradda Nirmoolan Samiti (ANiS, founded by Dr Narendra Dabholkar), which was instrumental in getting the anti-superstition bill passed by the Maharashtra Assembly. The Samiti is now planning to have a similar bill passed by our Parliament. You may…
Prabhakar Nanawaty India is not only a land of religion, superstition and blind beliefs, but also atheism, rationalism, humanism, skepticism and agnostics. It is a land of enlightenment, philosophical quest for truth and practical application of (rationalistic) principles for common good….. Dr. G. Vijayam While reading above quotation, one will wonder whether it is really…
Book Review Gopal Ganesh Agarkar: The Secular Rationalist Reformer Dr. Arvind Ganachari Popular Prakashan, Pune (2005) Price: Rs 395, pp 371 Prabhakar Nanawaty (pkn.ans@gmail.com) Gopal Ganesh Agarkar’s (1856-95) ideas mark the apex of the secular rationalist trend during renaissance of nineteenth century Maharashtra. Arvind Ganashari’s book, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, The Secular Rationalist Reformer, clearly highlights…
Book Review: Searching For The Sun In Candle Light…. (Wisdom of Vaastushastra) Arvind Pralhad Pakhale (Translated by Ms Suman Oak) Prabhakar Nanawaty (pkn.ans@gmail.com) As highlighted in the Forward written by Prof. R. V. Kolhatkar, Ex Director of Institute of Architecture and Design, Hyderabad, if one goes to any bookstall on airport, railway station or even…
Book Review: Exasperating Essays: Exercises in the Dialectical Method D. D. Kosambi Prabhakar Nanawaty (pkn.ans@gmail.com ) “The whole value of Marxism seems to me to be in the absence of dogmatism, mode of approach, and in the attitude to action… The success or failures of the Russian social experiments do not directly affect the validity…