Nirmukta is an online community and website founded in 2008 that promotes scientific temper, rational thinking and secular humanism. Nirmukta mean "liberated" in Sanskrit. Nirmukta was originally founded as a website in 2008, and by 2012 it had become an organisation with regional groups in 8 major Indian cities, including in Bangalore, Delhi and Chennai. Nirmukta regularly conducts workshops in collaboration with other rationalist organisations to promote scientific temper and create awareness about pseudosciences. In May 2011, Nirmukta hosted rationalist Narendra Nayak's challenge to Indian astrologers to predicte the 2011 election. Nayak is a regular contributor to the website. It also organized a "Hug an Atheist Day" event in India on 7 June 2013.
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