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  Image Credit:IMDB Atonement: A Reflection By: Ravi Jonwar Okay, so let me start by saying, I almost missed this one. If you’re from India and you spend more time than you should on Instagram Reels, there’s a chance you’ve already seen those beautiful, aching clips from Atonement. The ones where snippets from the movie appear with that soothing background tune “ Pawan udave batiya ”. At least that’s how I stumbled upon this beautiful movie. A random reel. Thirty seconds, or may be less. And yet, something about it stayed with me like a half-remembered dream. I added it to my watchlist and then, like most things on watchlists, it just... sat there. For a long time. And then, in true college-student fashion, I finally watched it when I absolutely shouldn’t have, right in the middle of a submission deadline. I put it on as “background noise.” You know how that goes. Ten minutes in, the assignment was forgotten. By the time the first act ended, I had completely given up any pretence o...

  What to do with Political Suffering: Solidarity Amid US-Israel-Iran War By: Jatin Mathur As the world heads towards wars with the US and Israel attacking Iran, humanitarians would certainly be concerned about peace and humanity. Recent geopolitical actions have been depressing to humanitarians, whether it is bombings targeted at civilians in Gaza, not leaving children and sexual exploitation of children by cultural and political elites in the Epstein files or political imprisonment of people across nations. We all have to face this question of what to do with this political sadness? To me (as a sociologist), these incidents might lead to an awareness of the oppressive structures and exploitation of human agency by elites; however, as a human being with empathy, it leaves me with helplessness and hopelessness. I would not say I do not have probable answers or solutions to these concerns, part of the problem lies in the inability to prepare conditions for a solution to work. In my ...