Nirmukta
| File:Nirmukta Logo.jpg | |
| Available in | English |
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| Website | nirmukta.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 22 July 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
Nirmukta is an online community and website founded in 2008 that promotes scientific temper, rational thinking and secular humanism.[1][2] Nirmukta mean "liberated" in Sanskrit.[3]
History and work[edit]
Ajita Kamal, a evolutionary biologist, was the founder of Nirmukta.[4] Nirmukta was originally founded as a website in 2008, and by 2012 it had become an organisation with regional groups in 8 major Indian cities, including in Bangalore, Delhi and Chennai.[5][6][7]
Nirmukta regularly conducts workshops in collaboration with other rationalist organisations to promote scientific temper and create awareness about pseudosciences.[1][8][9]
In May 2011, Nirmukta hosted rationalist Narendra Nayak's challenge to Indian astrologers to predicte the 2011 election.[10] Nayak is a regular contributor to the website.[3] It also organized a "Hug an Atheist Day" event in India on 7 June 2013.[11]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "In celebration of scientific temper". The Hindu. 15 February 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Trending: #Trolls". The Hindu. 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Johannes Quack (22 November 2011). Disenchanting India: Organized Rationalism and Criticism of Religion in India. Oxford University Press. p. 339. ISBN 978-0-19-981260-8. Search this book on
- ↑ "Free thinking to trounce patriarchy". The New Indian Express. 24 January 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ Ankur Pandey (9 March 2009). "Join the rationalists online or over chai". The Hindu. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Indian atheists seek recognition in the land of a million gods". The Times of India. 30 June 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Church of the non-believer". DNA India. 4 August 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Rationalists strike back, all set to nail the facade of 'religious magic'". DNA India. 8 February 2011. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Rationalist does 'miracles'". Deccan Herald. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Predict election results, win Rs. 10 lakh". The Hindu. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "This Friday Hug An Atheist". DNA India. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
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