Scared to be an Atheist in India

I've been reading about Darwin's theory of natural selection, evolution and evolutionary psychology for a few years now. I am also an engineer by background and appreciate the scientific methods. I used to be an agnostic before this (the kind of agnostic about space aliens; basically didn't spent any time thinking about these issues). But after reading these subjects, it was not possible for me to be an agnostic anymore. I don't remember how and when it happened, but suddenly sometime late 2006, I suddenly realized that God does not exist. There was too much evidence staring in my face against God.

Then I started reading about Atheism and was pleasantly surprised that there are millions like me, which was very reassuring. I'll talk about these resources in some other post. I also started realizing the pain caused to humanity by religion. However, it was not until read Richard Dawkins' 'The God Delusion' that I got enough courage to come out of the closet and do something about it.

But frankly, I'm quite scared. Though by and large, India is a very tolerant society, there are lot of fundamentalists and extremists who can get away with murder. I'm scared to take any steps on educating people on atheism because I fear some religious group will issue a bounty on my head. Bounty is an overstatement. Somebody might just be inspired to break my bones for free.

So, I repeat, I'm scared. Now I'm thinking that I'll use subtle means to educate people about the evil effects of religion.