Title: Periyar’s Political Atheism
Published on: August 1, 2023
Published in: Shuddhashar FreeVoice Magazine
Intervening in contemporary debates around secularism, this article characterises the fight between New Atheism and religious extremism as a “false conflict”. The author argues that political atheism—drawn from his engagement with the works of Periyar E.V. Ramasamy—offers “a radical alternative rooted in a broader critique of hierarchical power”.