Yashventures

I stumbled upon this image and I posted it on Facebook. Somebody suggested a program should be made from it. What could be a better way to kill some time on Sunday for an atheist programmer? So a bit of jQuery and some image hunting and a program was ready. Choose Your Path The time [...]

Couple of days back I was traveling in the train and I saw a middle aged man around 50. He was weary and visibly poor and he was holding a yellow bag in his right hand and had prayer beads inside it. He was reciting something…constantly. I kind of pitied that man. He probably had [...]

On my recent trip to Rajasthan we visited Chokhi Dhani near Jaipur – an artificial Rajasthani village. There was a tarot card reader as part of the village setup. My wife was curious so she checked out her fortune and also got me to do the same. I went along to know what the fortune [...]

Salmaan Taseer, governor of the Punjab province of Pakistan was shot dead by one of his guards Mumtaz Qadri. Reason? Mr Taseer was a moderate Muslim and he was a vocal opponent of a blasphemy law under which people (often minority) disrespecting the-one-who-can-not-be-named-drawn-pictured-caricatured-AND-disrespected were sentenced to death. The killer Mumtaz Qadri is actually heralded as [...]

I find this amusing. Whenever I try to explain my position as an atheist and ask some logical questions about God, the theists run away. My mom, my wife, friends… they just don’t want to discuss the G word. I often have fun encounters with my mom on the subject. When she tries to thrust [...]

People say Thank God It’s Friday in short TGIF. What should an atheist say? Same – TGIF. Thank Gregory Its Friday! Its Friday according to Gregorian calendar we are using. So we should thank Pope Gregory XIII!

Judaism, Christianity and Islam all originated from the common geographical area. Bible makes reference to Judaism and Moses and Quran acknowledges existence of both Moses and Jesus. However none of these three religions make any reference to Hinduism or Buddhism in thier holy books. It’s a proof that these books are not a word of [...]

I am often asked “If you don’t believe in God then how do you think everything in this world is happening?” Some other variants of this question are- Who created the universe? How babies are born? How seasons change? How do we have rains and sunshine, day and night? How everything happens? How is the [...]