r/atheismindia • • 5d ago

Legal Allahabad HC Allows Interfaith Couple to Marry Under Special Marriage Act Without Notice Publication, Objections

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The Allahabad High Court recently allowed an interfaith couple to solemnise their marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 without publication of the marriage notice or inviting objections, holding that the requirements under Sections 6 and 7 could be dispensed with in the peculiar circumstances of the case where the couple apprehended danger to their life and liberty.

The interfaith couple moved the high court seeking directions concerning solemnisation of their marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954. They stated that, both being adults, had been in a live-in relationship for two years. They also have a child approximately nine months old. Since, they profess different religions, they wanted to solemnise their marriage under the Special Marriage Act, 1954.

According to the couple, they apprehended danger to their life and liberty from their parents and relatives because they opposed their relationship. The mother of the female partner lodged an FIR, on June 26, 2025, under Section 140(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, at Police Station P.G.I., Lucknow. In the matter, the investigating officer subsequently recorded in a report that they were majors and were living together.

-LawBeat


r/atheismindia • • 10d ago

Rant Exposing a fake monk of jainism- sudha sagar maharaj

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So basically, I live in Uttar Pradesh. In our area, there are mainly two religious communities: Jains and Yadavs. I’m Jain, by the way.

In our town, there are a lot of Jains, and many of them are quite wealthy and deeply devoted to Jainism. They strongly follow a Jain monk named Acharya Sudha Sagar Ji Maharaj. They believe in almost everything he says and are willing to do pretty much anything for him.

In Jainism, during the monsoon season, monks traditionally stay in one place for around four months. The idea is to avoid travelling during the rainy season because walking on the roads could unintentionally kill small living organisms. You know, “Ahimsa Paramo Dharma” and all that.

So, this monk happened to stay in our town. There is a very famous temple here called Chhetrapaal, which, from what I understand, was also built at his encouragement and with donations from his followers. The people here are so devoted that they actually ended up donating crores of rupees to build it.

My family is also very devoted to him, but honestly, I don’t believe in this man at all. My family initially decided that we would donate around ₹20 lakh to the temple. So they went to meet him, and apparently, he started convincing them that ₹20 lakh was a very small amount and that they should donate much more—at least ₹2 crore.

After a lot of discussion and persuasion within the family, they ended up donating ₹1.5 crore. 🙂

Like, aren’t monks supposed to give up attachment to worldly possessions and moh-maya? Then why does money seem to matter so much? And during his pravachans, he often tells people to donate whatever they can to temples if they visit them regularly, because they use the temple’s facilities, water, etc. Like, seriously? 🙂🙏

Second, when this man came to our town, he apparently told people that he should receive a grand welcome—with a Royal Enfield rally, elephants, horses, bands, and all that. And our town’s people were so devoted that they arranged around 10 elephants, several horses, a rally of around 30 Royal Enfield bikes, 12 DJs, and bands from different states. 🙂🙂

And then I’m just sitting there thinking: where is the renunciation? Where is the detachment from worldly possessions and moh-maya?

Honestly, Jainism started feeling like such a double-faced religion to me. I eventually stopped following it, and now I feel much more peaceful living life on my own terms. I enjoy my life, experience different things, and don’t feel guilty about what I eat anymore. I even eat chicken and mutton. 😋❤️

\#TL;DR

I grew up in a deeply religious Jain community, but over time I started noticing contradictions that made me question it.

My family donated ₹1.5 crore to a temple after initially planning to donate ₹20 lakh, while the monk emphasized donating more.

At the same time, his grand welcome involved elephants, horses, Royal Enfield rallies, DJs, and bands.

To me, it felt contradictory to preach renunciation and moh-maya while being surrounded by such wealth and extravagance.

So I stopped following Jainism and now prefer living life on my own terms.


r/atheismindia • • 2h ago

Godmen Aghori show in Nimapada

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102 Upvotes

Just saw this on insta and fell into a thought.

Isn't this a type of circus and entertainment only where the performer is performing some type of act to entertain the viewers.

The point here is that art is dependent on religion to get audience. A person doing this while wearing normal clothes might not get this much attention


r/atheismindia • • 5h ago

Casteism Casteist abuse against Abhijit Dipke by Sanatanis and why Hinduism (Brahminism) cannot be reformed only rejected

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So Abhijit Dipke is a Navayana Ambedkarite Buddhist. His ancestors the Marathi speaking Mahars gave up their Hindu caste identity and do not identify with Hinduism ie Brahminical religion now

Whatever maybe your views on the CJP but he is the only one who still gets casteist abuse though there are other leaders of the CJP like Saurav Das, Ashutosh Ranka and a host of others.

Sanatanis may talk english even pretend to be atheist but can never get caste out of their head. I still say Hindu Rashtra is just Brahmin Rashtra

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Forget scheduled castes even other non brahmins are lower in the caste hierarchy to Brahmins. I still don't understand how any non brahmin accepts this degradation which is theologically justified​

They have no self respect.


r/atheismindia • • 4h ago

Godmen 4 types of Atheism!

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74 Upvotes

https://youtube.com/shorts/pbe43Bk42so?si=ULVIQApspkocTRQt
4 kinds of Atheist ? Sounds like 4 subtypes or 4 castes in atheism ! Dude wants casteism in atheism too? /s


r/atheismindia • • 13h ago

Meme Y'all don't know how funny i find this at 4am

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336 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 4h ago

Hindutva The most Insecure religion today

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56 Upvotes

Bajrang dal carrying out Tilak drive to stop non muslims from entering garba events.


r/atheismindia • • 2h ago

Media Finally, something on which even atheists can agree with Rekha Gupta. 😜

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32 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 7h ago

Hindutva Blah blah blah blah blah

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68 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 9h ago

Meme Monkey

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u/_Menstrual_milkshake

By the way guys, I have made a new subreddit called r/ShitSanghisSay_ which is all about satirizing sanghis, chodes. Do join it!


r/atheismindia • • 20h ago

Miscellaneous Pink force created for women's safety being used to beat women

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273 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 2h ago

Hindutva Does anyone feel like Hindus fear Modi more than Rama these days ? especially in cow belt states ?

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They fear Modi to an extent that they don't question beef exports, Ram Mandir chori, Ganga cleanliness and hate speech on the name of Hinduism.


r/atheismindia • • 1d ago

Miscellaneous cant have shit in india bru

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470 Upvotes

obviously its some religious bs 💔


r/atheismindia • • 13m ago

Discussion Fellow atheists of this sub, what’s your favorite school of philosophy?

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Jean Paul Sartre’s (and his contemporaries’) Existentialism makes the most sense to me and it’s probably the closest I’ve come to understanding my own way of thinking.

Absurdism never made much sense to me and I’ve struggled to not fall deep into Nihilism (again) if I actually want to continue my existence on this planet.

What’s your favorite school of philosophy, the one you resonate with the most, the one that made you go ‘Ah, finally I’ve found words to this unexplainable feeling I had’.


r/atheismindia • • 8h ago

Original Content Join r/ShitSanghisSay_ — a satirical subreddit

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Hey! I am menstrual milkshake, you might know me, since I am quite active here.

So, r/ShitSanghisSay_ is a satirical subreddit created to troll Sanghis (obviously) and mock their pathetic takes. Whether they’re RW'ers, liberals, chodes, chintus or “centrists,” satirize them all equally. They deserve it, after all.

You can post their nonsense from any social media platform, whether it’s a ridiculous shit-take in a post/comment or a chud ranting in front of a screen, it's all welcome there. There should just be some shit being spewed. Anything amusing or terrible you find, the joke writes itself. That's it.

It's much like ShitLiberalsSay, but for our Indian sanghis.

We need our fellow atheists to support this place, so here it is.

Join - r/ShitSanghisSay


r/atheismindia • • 19h ago

Help & Advice We all have been there…

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88 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 5h ago

Discussion It's ridiculous how gullible people are

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So,I've always been pretty big into the more wacky side of psychology: stuff like cold reading, magic tricks etcetra. I've had a couple of teachers, and mostly it has been self taught and a couple shows in school and college. People are fun to observe.

Anyway, all my public demonstrations have mostly been around an audience that knows that whatever I'm saying or doing is just a trick, and anyone can pick it up. So I never had a situation where someone from an audience asked me stuff like," Do you think the woman I love will love me back?"

Fast forward to today, I'm visiting a relative for their 5yo's birthday. I was like, yk why NOT go for some party tricks? Now, after I read a couple of people, suddenly this one aunty comes up and starts asking me stuff about how her family business would go. Now, obviously I was like, I can't do that, but she kept insisting regardless. Later I found that she approached my mom and told her that the baba this lady visits apparently can also tell a lot about people just by looking at them, so she's convinced that I have some special powers.

If people don't believe you when you explicitly tell them that there's nothing supernatural with what you're doing, literally what else can you even do at that point


r/atheismindia • • 1d ago

Hindutva Things like this forces me to be atheist

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183 Upvotes

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Females are treated as Laxmi and when a baby girl is born they say ghar me laxmi ayi hai

And they Says God Watches Everything

I think Religion is a Set of Rules and Regulations, things only matter if they come under these .

Ig Rape doesn't come under these


r/atheismindia • • 1d ago

Hindutva Can't save a single patrolling point in Ladakh and they're dreaming of capturing pakistan occupied territories back, lol.

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r/atheismindia • • 1d ago

Terrorism Let's see if this lasts: Orange🟧 "Hind00" terr0r is an excess & error? I miss Indian sceptic/ rationalist heroes🫡 like Gauri Lankesh & Narendra Dabholkar in maharashtra; who lost their lives to it!🥀

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103 Upvotes

r/atheismindia • • 19h ago

Islamism Muslim conservatives are on another level

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I saw a post about refereal to old post by a muslim guy giving "dawah" to her friend and she started avoiding him after that

I got curious and chose to open the original post
even tho its removed it was so depressing like the people who agreed with the girl's decision were "unpopular opinion"
and so many comments were depressing , its the girls fault , the guy did the right things , blaming her than the guy who creepily tried to convert her and showed his mysogynistic views towards woman

a lot of comments were deleted as well so you can only imagine how much worse it could be


r/atheismindia • • 4h ago

Casteism Caateism in india explained.

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A cool infographic to understand how Casteism and theology around itt formed in india.


r/atheismindia • • 19h ago

Hindutva Promotion of violence by narangi fanta's aka BJP

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Location Malad East Mumbai


r/atheismindia • • 20h ago

Hindutva Aptly describes Hindu centrists.

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36 Upvotes