CHARVAKA

Rationalism. Secularism. Freedom

Secular Activism

  • 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.

  • Premanand in Mangalore

    NARENDRA NAYAK

    Pioneer rationalist B. Premanand’s 2009 visit to Mangalore despite severe health struggles with cancer. The piece highlights his interactions at Canara College, his critiques of commercial yoga, rebirth claims, and religious exploitation, while showcasing his lifelong, defiant rejection of astrological predictions through his octogenarian survival.