THE EIGHTH WORLD ATHEIST CONFERENCE IN TIRUCHIRAPPALLI ON 7,8,9 JANUARY, 2010
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The Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act,1976 came into effect from 3 January 1977. The Amendment prescribes Fundamental Duties under Part. IV-A, wherein Article 51A(h) states that it shall be the duty of every citizen of India “to develop scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform.”
Even fifty years before this provision was included in the Constitution, Periyar E.V.Ramasamy began to spread ideas of Self-Respect,
THE TRICKS OF INDIA’S ‘GURU’ FRAUDSTERS EXPOSED
Hannah Gardner
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Sanal Edamaruku exposed the tricks of India’s ‘guru’
fraudsters in a performance “Science behind Miracles”
at the National Science Centre in New Delhi on 6th June, 2010.
At Sanal Edamaruku’s feet lies a boy of 13 draped in a piece of red cloth. Sanal Edamaruku calls for silence, stretches out his upturned hands and then issues a single command : levitate.
VIII WORLD ATHEIST CONFERENCE
[ JOINTLY CONVENED BY DRAVIDAR KAZHAGAM,
ATHEIST CENTRE AND RATIONALIST FORUM]
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The first World Tamil Classical Language Conference got off to a rousing start in Coimbatore on Wednesday, the 23rd June, 2010 in the presence of a massive gathering.
Thiru M.K.Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, while welcoming the dignitaries and gathering at the inaugural function of the conference, praised highly of the fineness, beauty, richness and grandeur of Tamil language.



