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Religious freedom, atheism, rationalism, Hinduism, Islam and other religions. Endorsing the freedom of religion, while combating superstition, extremism and religious supremacy.

Axis Bank’s Presses Panic Button Issues Threat Letter to RNA Exotica flat-buyers

Mumbai, 30th August, 2016: To recover its Rs 100 crore project loan to RNA Exotica before it becomes a bad debt like BOI's loan and SBI's loan, Axis Bank is pressing the panic-button and threatening flat-buyers to immediately pre-pay large amounts (like Rs 25-50 lakh), forgetting about slab-compl...

Sulaiman Bhimani
3 years ago

RNA Exotica: Nine ways buyers got screwed Royally !!!!!!!!!!!

Mumbai, 30 June 2016: Hundreds of savvy and well-educated flat buyers have purchased "luxurious" flats in RNA Exotica without noticing what their sale-purchase agreements clearly says: that RNA Exotica is actually a large and shabby slum rehabilitation scheme with a tiny island of rich flat-buyer...

Sulaiman Bhimani
3 years ago

Ekalavya's Guru Dakshina

#Gurugram, and the real lesson from the #Mahabharata – Appropriation is as old as the hills!

Following on from this series of tweets Ever since I heard of the renaming of Gurgaon to Gurugram, it was as if something exploded within me. Naming one metro station “Guru Dronacharya” did not bother me as much – especially since the next one is “Sikanderpur”. (I died mildly, thinking of the iro...

godavar
3 years ago

Bus burned at Bhosari by Shiv Sena activists

Does the argumentative Indian really exist?

The Indian socio-political space is polarized as never before. The religious and economic right wings came together in an unprecedented show of solidarity and gave India its first Prime Minister who refuses to answer any questioning. The writing was on the wall. Subramanian Swamy had detailed the...

Vidyut
4 years ago

Dr. Narendra Dabholkar - rationalist, humanist

Narendra Dabholkar’s speech on tradition and superstition – English translation Part 2

Narendra Dabholkar has become an icon of rationalist thought in India, but his works being mostly in Marathi are understood by few non-Maharashtrians for either endorsement or criticism. I am attempting to translate some of his speeches, so that his thoughts may reach more people and infor...

Vidyut
4 years ago

Hatchet job on TM Krishna by Ajith Kumar AS

Open letter to Ajith Kumar AS over his letter about TM Krishna’s letter

Ajith Kumar AS, I read your letter on the Round Table India website that was addressed to "whomsoever it may concern" and being concerned, I choose to reply. I can act all intellectual and Brahmanical over this or I can simply lay it straight. Your letter was a hatchet job on TM Krishna over his ...

Vidyut
4 years ago

painting of two women with sacred cow

Tales of Gourashtra ~ @strategerist #satire

Satirical futuristic fiction narrated by @strategerist to express his frustration with the Hindutva epidemic of cow protection and the associated violence and insanity. This is the story of a future when India is to be Gourashtra and cows have fundamental rights and can vote. Gaurashtra yahi bana...

Vidyut
4 years ago

cow in a pasture

Hindus do eat beef

Lalu Prasad Yadav's candid remark on #beef eating "Even Hindus eat #beef" appears to have shocked Sushil Kumar #Modi, and he's asking Sonia Gandhi and Nitish Kumar for explanations, as though there is something difficult to comprehend about a four word sentence. While the #BJP is busy rewriting #...

Vidyut
4 years ago

johari window

Inciting contempt for identities as human rights activism

There is an article in a blog dedicated to Dalit rights activism titled "How should a Brahmin-Savarna respond to a Dalit voice?" I took exception to it on Twitter and ended up breaking India's "laws" on how Dalits should be spoken to. This apparently means I am a Brahmin supremacist. Some things ...

Vidyut
4 years ago