The odd angle

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...

Between Poetry and Sex: The Stillness of 'Dhammic' Love -  Jatin Mathur  and Ravi Jonwar When a poetic mind falls in love, it seeks to create. When an instinctive mind falls in love, it seeks to consume. And when either of these fails to find fulfillment, love often turns into resentment and disdain. Broadly, love manifests in two ways—one marked by ideals, care, and sacrifice, and the other driven by persuasion, lust, and physical desire. I call the former Poetic Love and the latter Sexual Love. While poetic love requires letting go of desires and carries a spiritual essence, sexual love  latter has its origin in attraction. Poetic and Sexual Love However, both of these forms of love are commonly considered exclusive - which is not always the case. Poetic love may end in a sexual encounter or Sexual love may lead to spiritual experience. Interestingly, the unifying force in both these kinds of love is that both require you to lose ‘yourself’ in the other person. You pr...

  Discrimination Diaries By- Shreyansh Nishchal  We all have been denied our reasonable rewards and we all at some point have missed our opportunities just because we could not fit among the people around us. Sometimes you may be judged based upon your class, or ethnicity other times you may face discrimination based upon gender, caste, and religion. But the real problem is not the discrimination but our acceptance of it. We all have sometimes faced extreme discrimination based upon a social identity that mere comments upon your class and ethnicity do not seem discriminatory to us, sometimes even your social identity-based humiliation is tolerated by people based upon the belief that conditions were worse before. This has led to a collective acceptance of a discriminatory mindset among us. So we have come up with a collection of stories that may seem ordinary but are an outcome of a discriminatory mindset. DISCRIMINATION DIARIES  Recently, I watched a web series titled Pa...

  I am very sure that you are aware of the situation of Afganistan today . Taliban has taken over Afganistan and this is threatening to all humanitarians over the globe. Today I shall prove that Taliban is not islamic and you would understand extremism. Today I shall tell you about the extremist groups working around us to spread terror and hatred . First of all you should understand this EXTREMISM has no Religion ,Race , Gender or Age. Then what actually is responsible for so many groups working on this path of extremism or fanatic thoughts. EXTREMISM is propagated by 3 factors 1. IDEOLOGY All the extremists in the world are influenced by the ideology of  US vs THEM. You might have seen these terrorists over television saying we have been victimized over many years so we need to take revenge from oppresser. Or some extremist saying we are superior to other and they need to sustain our attrocities because they are lower to us . Most of the extremist terror organisation say tha...

1."We Are At War": Israel PM After Hamas Fires 5,000 Rockets From Gaza What is Happening in Israel- Palestine? Israeli-Palestinian Conflict News The recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict began in May 2021, when Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, fired rockets at Israel in response to Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. Israel responded with airstrikes on Gaza, and the two sides exchanged fire for 11 days, killing over 250 people, the majority of whom were Palestinians. The conflict ended with a ceasefire, but tensions remain high. What   is Palestine? palestine,recognised officially as the state of palestine by the united nations and other entities.  Today palestine theoretically includes the west bank and the gaza strip , but there is no interconnection regarding the same, more than 135 countries   recognize palestine as independent state including INDIA,which was one of first countries to recognize the palestine satat...