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Rationalism. Secularism. Freedom

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  • 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.

  • India’s Blasphemy Law: Section 295A of IPC

    NARENDRA NAYAK

    Laws like Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code have no place in a civilized society and need to be consigned, along with many such laws, to the trash bins of history. This is to be contrasted with Article 51A(h) of the Constitution of India which states “It shall be the duty of every citizen…