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Rationalist Society concern over tax-payer funded religion in schools
August 25, 2022

Rationalist Society concern over tax-payer funded religion in schools

A grassroots mobilisation that embraces secularism is needed to counter increased religious interference in Australia’s public education system, the latest...
Australia’s 2021 Census:  ‘No religion’ surge amid religious diversity
June 28, 2022

Australia’s 2021 Census: ‘No religion’ surge amid religious diversity

MELBOURNE, 28 June 2022: The 2021 Census has revealed increasing diversity in the religions Australians identified, reflecting continuing changes in...
BOOK REVIEW: Feminists on how clericalism and patriarchy have steeped in Church and the country
May 5, 2022

BOOK REVIEW: Feminists on how clericalism and patriarchy have steeped in Church and the country

There are books and books: some are meant to decorate bookshelves, others are read and forgotten; then there are still...
Beyond religion? Why Thampu’s book is a footnote to religious texts
April 26, 2022

Beyond religion? Why Thampu’s book is a footnote to religious texts

“Religious traditions are like the trellis that you make around a sapling to enable it to grow. But when it...
BOOK REVIEW: Rise of ‘new untouchables’
February 1, 2022

BOOK REVIEW: Rise of ‘new untouchables’

A new book by two veteran academics, “Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics: India’s Injurious Frame of Communalism”, perhaps...
Pakistan, India, Russia, China among “countries of particular concern” over ‘religious freedom’: US report
April 22, 2021

Pakistan, India, Russia, China among “countries of particular concern” over ‘religious freedom’: US report

By SAT News Desk Washington, D.C./MELBOURNE – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today (21 April 2021)...
Covid-19 exacerbated pre-existing grievances, stigmas, community divisions: UN study
January 16, 2021

Covid-19 exacerbated pre-existing grievances, stigmas, community divisions: UN study

By Rajiv Shah A recent study, jointly carried out by the UN World Food Programme and the International Organization for...
June 10, 2016

Indian Civilization Unlikely to have been Characterised by One Religion: Romila Thapar

‘Why can’t we think of civilisation as a process of tracking cultures?’: Historian Romila Thapar Full text of the speech...
Religion, Peace and Violence
January 19, 2014

Religion, Peace and Violence

By Ram Punyani The global scenario is full of violence in the name of religion. The acts of terrorism are...
Religion, Atheism and Secularism
August 10, 2013

Religion, Atheism and Secularism

By Ram Puniyani Last three decades have seen an unprecedented presence of religion in social and political space. Somewhere the...