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Rationalism. Secularism. Freedom

Federation Of Indian Rationalist Associations

  • India’s Growing Skeptic Movement

    TRACIE HARRIS

    Tracie Harris’s “India’s Growing Skeptic Movement,” first published in the Atheist Community of Austin’s newsletter in December 2008, is reproduced here as an important archival document on India’s rationalist movements. Cited in Johannes Quack’s Disenchanting India, it offers a valuable outsider’s snapshot of Indian skepticism and of Bangalore Skeptic, this website’s forerunner.

  • One Million Rupees to Predict Election Results!

    NARENDRA NAYAK

    This official handout from the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations details a one-million-rupee challenge for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Aimed at astrologers and claimants of supernatural powers, the competition required participants to accurately answer twenty-five specific election outcomes with at least eighty percent accuracy to earn the reward money.