Today (September 14) is Ada Lovelace Day. Did we know that?
This day is tied with Ada Byron who has been recognized as the ‘first computer programmer’ (though it is still subject to debate).
Well…this post is not only about Ada. We know the names of Hypatia, Madame Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Lise Meitner, Rachel Carson, Barbara McClintock, […]
Blasphemy Rights day or Blasphemy day in short, is very near (September 30th). This day is dedicated to those who are systematically being persecuted, harassed, or killed for their simple expression of Freethought (more precisely, for their ‘blasphemous’ views towards religion). I wrote a small piece last year (see here).
This year I […]
I wrote a piece in Bengali on Blasphemy day, 2013. I could not find time earlier to post this in English blog. Here it is:
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Today is September 30th, also known as Blasphemy Rights day. This day is dedicated to those who are systematically being persecuted, harassed, or killed for their simple expression of Freethought […]
Recently Facebook deleted some of my statuses, when a group of religious fanatics collectively targeted me (and some other freethinkers on Facebook) to report our “clean” statuses as ‘spam’. I am asking Facebook to restore all of my deleted statuses:
To the Facebook Customer Service Department,
For the past year, I, like thousands of other activists living […]
Just after the Shikh Temple massacre in Wisconsin a few months ago, Time Magazine published an article titled “The Case for Gun Control”, where the author Fareed Zakaria made a strong case in favor of stricter gun control laws. Although he offered valuable insight concerning the topic, the masses paid him little attention after the […]
This last US election was very personal to my wife – Bonna, and me. We knew President Obama’s first term was patchy. He had faced the challenge of handling one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression: the unemployment rate was rising tremendously, the housing market collapsed, gas prices were […]
