The odd angle

  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...

The Context Recently I watched a debate on the topic whether god exists or not between Javed Akhtar and Mufti Samail Nadvi. The debate was supposed to be academic however the subject was limited to logic and meta-physical level. Nadvi pointed out three standards out of the situation while discussing the issue (1) Science; as it dealt with empirical domain and god is supernatural hence beyond the senses, (2) Revelation; in the sense that scriptures mention existence of such entity and must be believed, (3) Observation; it builds on the same argument that you can’t show god as its beyond the grasp of our senses e.g. you can not detect plastic with metal detector.  Hence he sets out logic as standard to prove or disprove the existence of god, however he limits it to a definitive argument . Nadvi begins with the question on creation i.e. who created this world and mentions its natural to look for an outside agent for such creation which he accounted to the supernatural. He anticipated...