1 March, 2011 JUKTIBADI SAMITY (S.R.A.I) will complete 26 years. Established on this date in 1985, by Prabir Ghosh in Kolkata, Science & Rationalists’ Association of India has succeeded in surviving many disruptive forces and managed to work on its chief aim of Spreading rational and scientific thought. Fighting against superstitions resulting in numerous social [...]
By Santosh Sharma
By Dr. Neha Saturday night, on 26 February, 2011 The UN Security council voted unanimously to impose sanctions against the Libyan authorities, slapping the country with an arms embargo and freezing the assets of its leaders, while referring the ongoing violent repression of civilian demonstrators to the International Criminal Court. Libya’s ex-justice minister Mustafa Mohamed [...]
The Annual Conference and Special program with Rationalist Award Ceremony will be held on 5 and 6 March, 2011 at “Basundhara” banquet house at Sonarpur. (5 minutes from Sonarpur station by Rajpur-bound auto.) Program details:– 5th March – Registration of names will start from 8am. Delegates! Hurry up and join us at the hall in [...]
On 6th and 7th 0f March, 2010 we celebrated the completion of 25 years of our Rationalist Association at Juba kendra,(Youth Centre) Moulali, Kolkata. 93 delegates came from 16 districts of Bengal. There were interactive session, panel discussion on problems at the branch level as well as various social issues. General Secretary Prabir Ghosh read [...]
This is based on an actual experiment conducted in U.K. Put eight monkeys in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling.Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder, all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which [...]
Dear Shri Prabir Ghosh and Smt. Sumitra Padmanavan Thank you for your gracious sentiments. With regards, Yours sincerely, Gopalkrishna Gandhi
To The Honorable Governor Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi Dear Sir, We are a group of social activists working for the last twenty five years for a more progressive and rational society. We also work for human rights. We had earlier written to you on the Nandigram issue and had been overwhelmed by your active involvement in [...]
By Manoj Giri [The author, a teacher in Kurseong, is Vice President of Humanists’ Association] The basic point about Gorkhaland is IDENTITY and NOT DEVELOPMENT. You should be very clear at the outset, that bringing in the talk of DEVELOPMENT in the way of IDENTITY is to DEVIATE from the core issue and to [...]
HUMANISTS’ ASSOCIATION was born on September 11, 1993. Even after 14 long years the relevance of a secular haman society is increasing. In the wake of the demolition of Babri Masjid we felt the need to stress on the new religion ‘HUMANISM’ and our organization was born; and on 10th December, the same year 54 [...]
By Sumitra Padmanabhan, General Secretary, HUMANISTS’ ASSOCIATION We strongly condemn the incident of violence on Taslima Nasreen in Hyderabad on August 9, 2007. There is nothing ‘unfortunate’ about it as described by the MIM chief, Sultan S. Owaisi. Fortune has nothing to do with man’s misdeeds. Someone has to take responsibility for any wrong that [...]
Please watch BBC documentary DESI DNA on INDIAN CULTURE in BBC2 on 6th August, 2007. Rationalism too is a part of Indian culture… watch Prabir Ghosh interviewed in KOLKATA. It will be broadcast in UK and EUROPE at 10:00 PM (UK time).
Who’s the moron in the picture? Mataji Nirmala Devi, who has much advertised her ‘Sahaja Yoga’. Like other heavyweight godmen, she has blind followers from all over the world. Well, here we can see that she has quite gone overboard and placed the flag of India on her feet. In picture 1 you can [...]
History of this day In 1952 in Dhaka, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) police opened fire on a procession of students, who demanded the establishment Bengali as the official language, killing four people and starting a country-wide protest which led to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan. The day was later declared [...]
