Indian Rationalist Association

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Indian Rationalist Association is a voluntary organisation in India with wide variety of activities promoting scientific temper. It publishes books and magazines, organises seminars and lectures and its representatives regularly appear in TV and print media exposing superstitions. The Indian Rationalist Association was founded in 1949 at Chennai (then Madras). The founding president was Dr R.P. Paranjpye (later High Commissioner of India in Australia and vice-chancellor of Bombay University). The present head quarters of the association is at New Delhi. Sanal Edamaruku, well-known broadcaster and author, is its president. The Indian Rationalist Association has branches in different states of India and has a large membership. This organisation was leading the media fight against the recent superstition wave in India. The Kerala Yuktivadi Sangham's meet was held in Kerala on December 2007. The Rationalist Centre at the capital city of India is managed by Indian Rationalist Association.

The Australian writer Greg Egan has used the Indian Rationalist Association in his novel Teranesia.

[edit] See also

• Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations

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