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Welcome to Indian Atheists! The purpose of this group is to promote social interaction between atheists from India. Standard forum rules apply.

Website: http://IndianAtheists.com
Location: India
Members: 195
Latest Activity: May 15

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Hello and thank you for joining the Indian Atheists group on Atheist Nexus. Indian Atheists is the Atheist arm of Nirmukta, a community of Freethinkers working to promote Science and Reason in India.
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Indian Atheists: http://IndianAtheists.com
Nirmukta Site: http://Nirmukta.com
Nirmukta Forums: http://Nirmukta.net
Nirmukta facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=61428603151&ref=ts
Indian Atheists facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/IndianAtheists

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Revive this group!Make it active!!

Started by R.Vasanthan Apr 16. 0 Replies 0 Likes

It's sad to see this group stagnant,the way I saw it when I first joined this website.I'm not sure who is the administrator of this group and if it was Ajita Kamal in that case since he's dead,we…Continue

New Research on Caste system

Started by Arvind Kaushik. Last reply by Reads Feb 7. 3 Replies 0 Likes

Hi all,This is my first post and I just want to post a preview/advertisement of (what seems to be) a very exciting and groundbreaking research program on the caste system done by the research team…Continue

from hinduism to atheism

Started by Selina Mannion. Last reply by R.M.Sivarathinam Jan 26. 7 Replies 0 Likes

I am looking for former stories of hindus who became atheists. I am writing a book on people who leave their religion and embrace secularism. I am including my story as a former muslim. I will…Continue

Hi to all

Started by Rizwan Khan. Last reply by Shakir Ebrahim Dec 13, 2012. 3 Replies 0 Likes

HiMy name is Rizwan Khan and i live in Delhi.I am an ex-muslim and an atheist for last 1 year.Since then i am active in spreading the atheism :…Continue

Ajita Kamal has died

Started by chekuthan. Last reply by rakesh kanuri Jan 10, 2012. 2 Replies 0 Likes

"With deep sorrow, we regret to inform of the untimely death of Ajita Kamal. Ajita is the founder of Nirmuka and was a great champion of freethought in India. He died in an incident in his home town…Continue

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Comment by Sanil Mohandas on December 8, 2009 at 1:24pm: Btw, that avatar of mine is the famous "crocoduck" of the Richard Dawkins fame. I wish all of us could get to meet my Messiah Dr Dawkins someday. That would be one nice pilgrimage :)

Comment by Sanil Mohandas on December 8, 2009 at 1:15pm: Hi, this is Sanil from Chennai but now in Tampere, Finland. Its nice to know my bros/sis here though this forum. In India its so hard to find some/any true humanists/rationalists. Everyone is expected to believe in some rock or the other. A welcome change here...

Comment by Ajita Kamal on November 29, 2009 at 8:01pm: As a reminder, colonial era European art depicted 'natives' as savages with no moral values. Indian art has frequently depicted 'lower castes' in similar ways. The argument here could be that this is just metaphor, but metaphor for what? If anything, it is a metaphor for oppression. We all know that the dalits are darker in general than the brahmins. Its more likely that such ideas have been part of the dominant cultural representation of Indian culture for centuries, a representation that is symbolic of much injustice.

Comment by Ajita Kamal on November 29, 2009 at 7:50pm: I'm more concerned with the representation of evil in the image- a dark skinned devil woman with a rabid sexual lust.

Comment by Trance Gemini on November 29, 2009 at 9:02am: In what way Ajita? Isn't Rama always depicted as "blue" inferring black?

Comment by Ajita Kamal on November 29, 2009 at 4:40am: Anyone else find something terribly offensive about this image?
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/OQ43/
I can't help feeling that his sort of thing is a cheerful reminder of the religious justification for the caste system and skin-color/gender prejudice in India. And here I am thinking that the worst thing about the Ramayana is the misogynistic treatment of Sita. Or am I reading too much into the picture?

Comment by Trance Gemini on November 26, 2009 at 9:43am: You can thank my niece ;-)

Comment by Ajita Kamal on November 26, 2009 at 9:42am: LOL, that was HILARIOUS, T.G.

Comment by Trance Gemini on November 26, 2009 at 7:03am: Just thought I'd wish everyone a Merry Christmyth here....

Enjoy ;-)

Comment by Dharmendra Shah on November 25, 2009 at 7:46am: I have started a yahoo group unite all Indian and also to count the number of Indian who do not believe that any Super Natural power exists.

I strongly believe that their is nobody who control our life. There is nothing called destiny. There is no God or Ghost exists. Similarly there is no Sin or Holy work. It can be called only as Good or Bad on the basis of human values. and Finally, there is no hell or heaven.

Human beings are just one of the type of many living beings with more IQ.

I wish one day all religion should vanish to understand that only Humanity should be our religion. We understand it is not possible in next 500 years but let us join hands to make Indian mass understand our numbers and so our opinion.

Atheist in India is considered as Evil. We need to educate people that not believing god is just a realization of a fact. It doesn't mean that we hate god. How can we hate a thing which we believe does not exist.

Need just your support by joining the group.