MELBOURNE, 6 August 2024: The dramatic developments that led to the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and she fleeing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
