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Oliver Sacks writes with great serenity and dignity on learning about his terminal illness - My Own Life nyti.ms/1AVTP3H

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Hope the scum who did this get trampled to death. Murdered mum, orphaned baby. And all for fake medicine. Revolting. x.com/rickygervais/status/55…"

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16 Jan 2015
"@NeuroscienceNew: Very sad to learn Vernon Mountcastle, ‘Jacques Cousteau of the cortex,’ died. wapo.st/1AgOLSP" great loss

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Common refrain after attacks by religious outfits - attacks have 'nothing to do with religion'. Yes, come, lets burry our heads in the sand.
Nothing's worth killing for - neither religion nor God #JeSuisCharlie
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27 Dec 2014
One must know #history of #science. Fine. But mixing #myth, #pseudoscience & nationalism is deadly. bit.ly/1zodvIi #IndianScience

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24 Dec 2014
It took 4mn years for homo sapiens (humans) with 99.9%homology to evolve. But religions took only 2k years to split us apart. @BDUTT @ndtv
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Pakistan must live in Peshawar Candid and heartfelt... more power to such voices thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/c…
Isn't it time to acknowledge that religion is responsible for increasing brutality and intolerance around the world? #PeshawarAttack
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Insecure and insular in urban India thehindu.com/opinion/lead/in…

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A news report in the Chennai edition of "The Hindu" on a recent academic event where I spoke as an invited speaker thehindu.com/news/cities/pud…

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It's possible to offend or insult a person, or hurt a person's feelings. But you can't offend a belief. Beliefs have no feelings to hurt.
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#COI - "Honking alone cannot magically clear a traffic jam!" Join our #twitterchat #HornNoOk today between 5-6 PM and say No to Honking.
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.@RichardDawkins Your Daily Horoscope ;-)
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Social Media at its best.
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Private cleanliness amid public squalor. "Swatch Bharath" may become mere tokenism - Local governance key to success thehindu.com/opinion/lead/pr…

#Shankaracharya vs #Saibaba - seriously entertaining stuff - people arguing over who can be and who cannot be a non-existent being!
#Shankaracharya says #Saibaba not god as he ate meat. Right, and I am no Superman coz I dont wear trunks over my pants.
Attack on Prashant Bhushan - another example of growing intolerance and violence