Atheist Centre
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Postage stamp released by Government of India in memory of Gora
Atheist Centre is an institution founded by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (aka Gora)(1902-1975) and Saraswathi Gora (1912-2006) to initiate social change in rural Andhra Pradesh based on the ideology of Gandhism and Atheism. Founded in the year 1940 at Mudnur village in Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, India the Centre was later shifted to Vijayawada in the year 1947.
As a member organisation of the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations, the Atheist Centre endorses the Amsterdam Declaration 2002.
The institution received the International Humanist and Ethical Union's International Humanist Award in 1986
