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PROMINENT ATHEISTS FROM INDIA:
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Kamal Haasan---Actor,secularist,4 time national award winner,18 times filmfare award winner,Padmashri in 1990 and first Abraham Kovoor National Award for his Humanist Activities and Secular Life
Mani Shankar Aiyar--- cabinet minister in Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Ministry of Panchayati Raj in the Manmohan Singh government,secularist and gandhism
Periyar:- Founder of self respect movement,social reformer,Gave a strong campaign against the caste system and fought for equal right for women
Karunanidhi---5 time chief minister of tamil nadu,secular and writer
Jyoti Basu---chief minister of west bengal(1977 to 2000),marxist,secularist
C. N. Annadurai---chief minister of tamil nadu(1967-1969),anti-caste sytem and fought for women upliftment
Siddaramaiah---Secular humanist and politician
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Basava Premanand(officially known as amazing randi of south india)---Rational,skeptic,exposed various god men(including sai baba),debunker of superstious, founder of Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations and book author
Abraham Kovoor---Rationalist,skeptic,gave a Crusade against the God men in srilanka and india
Prabir Ghosh---Rationalist,skeptic,secular humanist,Founder of Science and Rationalists’ Association of India, author of many books,writer and debuking superstious
Joseph Edamaruku---journalist ,rationalist,skeptic,founder-editor of Therali,gave a strong criticism about quran,upanishad and bible.
Sanal Edamaruku---rationalist,skeptic,freethinker,founder-president of Rationalist International and exposed many frraud god men
Narendra Nayak---Rationalist,skeptic,freethinker,Humanist,debunker of superstious,writer and founder of Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association
Narendra Dabholkar---Rationalist from maharashtra and secularist
Mookencheril Cherian Joseph---Rationalist,founders of Yukthivadi, the first ever
rationalist/atheist magazine in Malayalam and debunker of superstious
H. Narasimhaiah---physicist,Freedom fighter,rationalist,physician,debunker of superstious and Padma Bhushan(1985)
A. B. Shah--- founder-president of the Indian Secular Society,secularist humanist and writer
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - World-renowned post-colonial theorist
Homi K Bhabha - Also another world-renowned post-colonial theorist (born a Parsi)
javed akhtar ( script writer & lyrics writer ).
Salman Rushdie : Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction. Knighted by the queen.
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