A provocative discussion started at Facebook by my friend Abhishek, worth mentioning here. There are many people commented in the thread – I am just pasting the conversation(with minor editing) between me and Abhishek. Abhishek started the thread: We say the education in early days was in-depth and substancial…..was it because all teachers were ‘Guru’ [...]
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Education, history, womanhood and a Facebook discussion
Posted in Awareness, Soul on May 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Four Horsemen
Posted in Atheism, Awareness, tagged Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Religion, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Image via Wikipedia 30th of September 2007, my favorite 4 ‘militant atheists’, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens sat down for a first-of-its-kind, unmoderated 2-hour discussion, convened by RDFRS and filmed by Josh Timonen. All four authors have recently received a large amount of media attention for their writings against religion – [...]
Open letter to Suman Chatterjee aka Kabir Suman
Posted in Awareness, Bengali, Personal, Song, Soul on March 30, 2009 | 73 Comments »
I was sixteen when I first heard your song. It was, ironically in a CPIM’s meeting at Brigade Parade Ground. I have always been politically conscious, but never involved in active politics. The only reason me and my friend went to the Brigade, was to watch Utpal Dutt’s play (most probably ‘Tiner Taloar’). It was [...]
Open letter to all my Muslim friends
Posted in Atheism, Awareness, India, Soul, tagged India on December 8, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Prelude: this introduction is unnecessary for the people who know me. But, just in case… I am atheist and against any organized religion. I am all against discriminating two human beings based on ‘my imaginary friends are different from yours’ basis. I am against all fundamentalism. I am ashamed of incidents of Godhra as well [...]
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