Talk:Irreligion in India

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Adding First officially irreligious person of india: Sneha Parthibaraja to keep this article updated
Adding information about first officially irreligious citizen of india, sneha Parthibaraja and others who are struggling to be officially irreligious like ravi kumar atheist etc. Mr.nothing anonymous (talk) 22:35, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * मैं Ex Muslim हूं", शो में देखिए इस्लाम छोड़ चुके लोगों की मौलानाओं के साथ बहस, India TV on YouTube May 14, 2022 (Language Hindi)

&#32;Bookku, &#39;Encyclopedias &#61; expanding information &#38; knowledge&#39; (talk) 01:55, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

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 * https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/litmus-22-a-celebration-of-scientific-temper-and-free-thinking/article65963145.ece

&#32;Bookku   (talk) 09:57, 26 October 2022 (UTC)


 * https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/2023/oct/02/kerala-litmus-23-conference-sees-debate-on-hindutva-politics-neoliberalism-2620012.html


 * https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/kerala-atheist-conference-sees-debate-on-hindutva-but-ends-up-amplifying-rw-rhetoric


 * https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/kerala-atheist-conference-sees-debate-on-hindutva-but-ends-up-amplifying-rw-rhetoric


 * https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/satirical-skit-at-essense-globals-atheist-conference-in-kerala-peddles-stereotypes-about-the-state-2


 * https://www.firstpost.com/art-and-culture/what-it-means-to-be-a-feminist-atheist-in-india-hate-filled-and-violent-responses-make-even-the-act-of-offering-solidarity-fraught-8591011.html

&#32;Bookku   (talk) 12:35, 15 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Binder, Stefan. Total Atheism: Secular Activism and the Politics of Difference in South India. Germany, Berghahn Books, 2020. p. 196 -225 Quote: ".. that for women, more is at stake than the question of how to aesthetically authenticate the practical sincearity of atheism as an ex-centric way of life;  they have to face additional semiotic challange that embodying ex-centricity every day life risks unsettling their contexutualized individuality as an appropriately female woman. .. ". Also need to cover point of androcentrism.
 * &#32;Bookku   (talk) 11:09, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

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 * Askar Ali (Hudavi),a 24 year old Muslim maulvi from Kerala who was also an imam at a mosque, who left Islam and become a rationalist and freethinker.jpg
 * EA Jabbar and M.M Akbar during the debate, Adv Anil Kumar,President Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham in middle.webp
 * EMu 2.jpg

Discussion

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This sentence too would need some further improvement but seems better representation than following sentence

An uninitiated reader might end up thinking that Atheism and irreligion are not allowed in India, where as case is more nuanced. So do we need sentence at all or can it it be improved in some way?

&#32;Bookku   (talk) 12:49, 15 October 2023 (UTC)