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TopicNarendra Dabholkar

Topic: Narendra Dabholkar

Black dolls on trees, ‘goddess footprints’ — Maharashtra anti-superstition law barely used in 10 yrs

Anti-superstition activists attribute this to frequent changing of govts, and lack of will on part of every administration. Very few cases lodged, conviction rate also dismal, they add.

Dhirendra Shastri, miracle-maker of MP, is only getting bigger after rationalist challenge

Forced to run from Maharashtra by rationalists' open challenge to prove his 'chamatakar', 'godman' Dhirendra Shastri is back among his believers in Bageshwar Dham. Bail to cancer cure, devotees are flocking him for everything.

5 agencies, multiple arrests — 7 yrs after Narendra Dabholkar was shot dead, probe continues

The doctor-rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was gunned down on 20 August, 2013. While CBI has arrested members of the radical Sanatan Sanstha, it is yet to complete the probe.  

Praying for rain won’t help India. Problem is man-made, why pray to god asked Dabholkar

Maharashtra’s governor in 1992 asked citizens to pray for rain. Rationalist Narendra Dabholkar wrote why we must be scientific not superstitious.

Sanatan members planned to use crude pistols, bombs to kill ‘anti-Hindu’ individuals: ATS

The charges are part of a 6,000-word chargesheet filed against 12 Hindu extremists by the Maharastra ATS.

These Indian scientists have formed a band of myth-busters. Social media beware

A group of scientists from Mumbai are tracking fallacies peddled as fact and then debunking them.

Arrested Hindutva activists conspired to target Western music concert in Pune, says ATS

ATS has found a list of persons that the accused planned to target. They were also allegedly involved in blasts outside movie theatres at Kalyan and Belgaum. 

CBI finds link between Lankesh and Dabholkar murders, asks court for extended custody of accused

CBI officer says awaiting ballistic reports on pistol seized from accused's house.

On his death anniversary, Dabholkar’s family demand arrests. Pansare’s kin join in

Eminent public personalities joined the protest rally- Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Tushar Gandhi, actor Sonali Kulkarni & a few others. 

CBI detains ex-Shiv Sena corporator in Dabholkar murder case

Shrikant Pangarkar, a former member of the Jalna Municipal Corporation, has been taken into custody by the CBI.  Aurangabad: A former Shiv Sena corporator has been...

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.