Recently, a video clip was widely circulated and celebrated on social media. It featured a debate titled “ Does God Exist ,” ...

In a post on X, Stalin said that Periyar straightened "bent backs" and empowered people to stand tall with dignity, dedicating himself entirely to the soil of Tamil Nadu. He asserted that Tamils would ...

E V Ramasamy, or 'Periyar', was commemorated across Tamil Nadu on his death anniversary for his pioneering role in social ...

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate 400-year-old Dark Age.

A new scholarly volume examines Periyar’s unflinching critique of caste, his radical feminism, and his enduring impact on Indian political thought.

It was at the height of the Cold War that the CIA and the American government began subsidizing Protestant missions, mostly ...

Bande Mataram has had a chequered history in the service of the nation. If we abide by Rabindranath’s sage advice given in ...

The third installment of detective Benoît Blanc's investigations forces its protagonist to confront the murder of a priest, shaking his belief in rationalism.

Lacking this depth, most rationalists in India end up, at best, as activists against blind belief in the supernatural and miracle mongering. Their work in combating superstition rooted in ignorance ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, describing himself as Periyar's grandson in ideals, unveiled the reformer's portrait at Oxford University, calling it his greatest honour and a recognition of ...

A deep dichotomy exists between rationalists and traditional revivalists. But to what extent do rationalists in our country seriously talk about rationalism in its deeper sense? Recent statements by ...

Odysseus confronts Philoctetes in a tragic test of virtue and rationalism in which cunning challenges moral integrity and human suffering. Credit: Jean Housen, Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 Sophocles ...