Author: Narisetti Innaiah
Narisetti Innaiah is vice president of the Rationalist Association of India and a national executive member of the Indian Radical Humanist Association. He has published books and articles in English and Telugu on politics, philosophy, skepticism, and humanism. He translated into Telugu major works by humanist philosopher M.N. Roy, Paul Kurtz, and others.
Basava Premanand, 1929–2009
Basava Premanand, humanist, rationalist, and skeptic, died in September in Podanur, India, at the age of eighty. He was the founding president of the Federation of Rationalist, Humanist, and Atheist Associations of India and edited the monthly Indian Skeptic. Premanand dedicated his life to exposing fraudulent cult gurus, divine babas, and holy mathas in India …
Child Abuse by Religions
Children Must Be Rescued From Religion And Restored To Humanity “Our children are our own. They are ours to thrash or kill, if we choose; who are you to poke your nose in?” Yes, millions of parents still feel that way, in every part of the world. They justify harsh punishments with dictums like “You …