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- Ravipudi Venkatadri (born 9 February 1922) is an activist in the rationalist and humanist movements. He was born into a middle class peasant family in 1922 at Nagandla, a village in Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh, turned to rationalist ideas in 1940 after reading Sambukavada written by Tripuraneni Rama Swamy. Ravipudi is the founder director of Kavirajasram, Nagandla (1943). He propagated rationalist ideas in and around Nagandla. He attended the study camps organised by M. N. Roy at Dehradun (1946) and Mussorie (1949). He was the founder president of Rationalist Association of Andhra Pradesh. He was elected president of Rationalist Associations of India (RAI) in 1989, and Radical Humanist Association (Andhra Pradesh) in 1993. He established Hetuvada Manavavada – HEMA (acronym from Hetuvada-Manavavada, meaning Rationalist-Humanist) – Foundation and is the founder editor of Hetuvadi – a rationalist periodical in Telugu language which was established in September 1982. He conducted and headed a number of study camps to educate the cadre on rationalist and humanist lines. He has written extensively in Telugu on science, religion, rationalism, Marxism, materialism, atheism and other subjects. He wrote over 90 books, edited them into 23 Volumes, translated six of them into English and published them through Hetuvada Manavavada Publication (popularly mentioned as HEMA Publication), from Chirala, Andhra Pradesh. Some of his books have been translated into Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Malayalam and English. He started Hetuvadi, a Telugu monthly magazine, to propagate the aims of the Andhra Pradesh Rationalist Association for which he had been elected president since 1979. He led Rationalist Associations of India (RAI) for over two decades. He is now the chairman of it. He is supposed to be the first author to write a book on rationalism with the title Rationalism. It was published in 1978. He toured America and Europe to participate in the Humanist Conferences held there in the year 1993. He had extensively and frequently toured to attend rationalist conferences and study classes. He had visited Kerala, Mumbai, Delhi and other places in the country to strengthen rationalist movement. He had delivered speeches on rationalism and humanism at various universities, including Andhra University, Vizag Telugu University and Telugu Academy in Hyderabad. He had received award from the then vice-president of India in 1996 for his remarkable intellectual life. (en)
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- Nagandla, Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India (en)
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- Ravipudi Venkatadri (born 9 February 1922) is an activist in the rationalist and humanist movements. He was born into a middle class peasant family in 1922 at Nagandla, a village in Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh, turned to rationalist ideas in 1940 after reading Sambukavada written by Tripuraneni Rama Swamy. Ravipudi is the founder director of Kavirajasram, Nagandla (1943). He propagated rationalist ideas in and around Nagandla. He attended the study camps organised by M. N. Roy at Dehradun (1946) and Mussorie (1949). He was the founder president of Rationalist Association of Andhra Pradesh. He was elected president of Rationalist Associations of India (RAI) in 1989, and Radical Humanist Association (Andhra Pradesh) in 1993. He established Hetuvada Manavavada – HEMA (acronym from Het (en)
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