Bijon B Sarma

Whether Religion is A Mental Disease Bijon B Sarma

In the university many did not know Professor Thunderbolt, but all knew the 'mad professor'. His style of teaching was 'peculiar', but his students liked it most. In his world of Social Anthropology he, in his language' was fighting to push five students in the "Ph. D. making machine". The students were, Ayesha (Saudi Arabia), Govinda (Nepal), Surindar (India), Erick (USA) and Meer Hossain (Iran). This was the time when Robert Sapolsky all on a sudden created sensation by declaring, "Religion had similarities with mental disease". For the students' brain-storming the mad professor picked up this topic as term-paper. He allowed his students to express what they knew and thought about religion. And he expressed his own thoughts. This book explains, how their term-papers came to reality. What was strange, all of them had more or less similar conclusion, and it was like the following. "Democratic government, charter of human rights and justice were essential for peace and tranquility of any state. In addition, what essentially needed to be ignored was 'religion'.