Category: Scepticism

रिचर्ड डॉकिन्स : संध्याछाया दिपवती हृदयाभूषण निगळे , हेम्सबाख, जर्मनीडॉकिन्स यांच्यासारखा आघाडीचा शास्त्रज्ञ आणि विज्ञानप्रसारक जर या व्याधींपासून दूर राहू शकतो, तर सर्वसामान्य व्यक्तींनाही हे का शक्य असू नये ? घमेंडीचे रूपांतर उद्दामपणात आणि उद्दामपणाचे स्वतःबद्दलच्या अवास्तव कल्पना खऱ्याच आहे या भ्रमात होते. याउलट, वैचारिक नम्रतेची आयुष्यभर साथ असली तर नवीन आव्हानांना सामोरे जायची शक्ती […]

It is close to Christmas eve in 2021. Just few days ago but I don’t remember exact date. My wife is reciting hanuman chalisa in the prayer-cum-study. I am around somewhere, probably other bedroom. Son keeps darting around the house doing stuff that 4-5 year olds do but out of the blue, I hear our […]

I frequently wonder as to why it took me almost 40-45 years to be completely distrustful of all religions and become a complete non-believer. Here are few questions I should have asked to myself and thought about. If done with honesty, rationality and with due weightage to evidence, I would have reached this journey much […]

प्रासंगिक आणि व्यक्तिगत. शिवशाहीर बमो पुरंदरे वारले. त्यांना ओम् शांती.माझ्या नजीक, फेसबुक वॅालवर नुसता पूर लोटलाय. श्रद्धांजलींचा व तितकाच, निर्भर्त्सना करणार्या लिखाणाचा. शिवाजी महाराजांबद्दल आमच्यासाठी प्रमाण पुस्तक होतं, त्यांनी लिहीलेलं शिवचरित्र.त्याची पारायणे केली होती, पन्नास एक वर्षांपूर्वी. नंतर संपर्क मिटला त्या शैलीतील लिखाणाशी.त्यांच्या कुटुंबियांच्या व चाहत्यांच्या दु:खात अनेक सहभागी असणार. वयाच्या योग्य (apt) स्थळी कुरुंदकरांचे […]

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all star dust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded because the elements the carbon nitrogen oxygen iron and all the things that matter for evolution were created at the beginning of time. They’re created in the nuclear furnaces of stars […]

In India, once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?” He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh or Christian?” He said, “A Hindu” I said, “Me, […]

On sites like Quora and in many of the whatsapp forwards in Indian communities, it is frequently claimed that Tulsi Das mentioned the distance between the sun and the earth in the Hanuman chalisa, a devotional poem. Many a times, this particular “fact” is touted as a proof that India had this particular “ancient wisdom” […]

Today, let us take a trip down Greek “history” lane, approximately dated thousands of years ago. In the beginning (of universe) was Hecatoncheires (Greek for thousand headed, thousand eyed creature). From him formed the universe and he formed the human society. His mouth formed the Athens (upper class), Metics were his arms (middle class), freedmen […]