About Me - KSK

I am a rational ( or rather try to be one,as being a perfect rational is a near impossibility!) secular( Please read my blog on "Secularism") humanist and define "religion" as " a way of life". I think that the practical existence of such an entity called "GOD" is highly improbable, so much improbable that it is not worth considering that such an entity exists in practice. And accordingly, my religion is "agnosticism". Probably it won't be wrong to call me a free-thinker either. Writings and thinkings of the likes of Bertrand Russel and Robert Ingersoll resemble highly with my own thinkings and am influenced by the thinkings of these rational people.

I have always believed in the following,but quote Russel's exact wordings here-"We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages. A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence. It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time toward a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create."

I would try to express my viewpoints on certain issues of the day in this blog in a very straight forward manner. A person who reads this blog is free to put his/her comments - please put it as frankly as possible - it is very unlikely that I get offended. I am a very firm believer in freedom of thought and expression. Every person should be free to express one's thoughts - the checkpoints should be kept to bare minimum - whether it is criticising a policy taken by the Government or a judgement of a court or an opinion on some religious/ritualistic faith - freedom of speech and expression should never be curtailed.

It is perfectly possible that some viewpoint that I have published presently changes over time in future - the reason being that, it is not possible to be an ideal rationalist everytime. At a later point of time, it is possible that one realises one's belief/thinking not being rational enough and change accordingly - hence would like to emphasise that I am open to comments/criticisms.