No More Opium, Please | The Indian Express

No More Opium, Please | The Indian Express

Written by Tahir Mahmood |Published: March 11, 2019 12:53:11 am

The writer is distinguished jurist chair and professor of eminence, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Amity University.

No More Opium, Please

It is time to thank God for services provided and jettison the concept.

The awkward question of whether God exists or not has been posing itself to mankind throughout history and nobody could ever give a decisive answer. (Representational Image)

“For God’s sake conduct God out of our national frontiers” is an appeal I have long been longing to make to fellow citizens but, conscious of the morbid religiosity prevailing in the society, have been a bit ambivalent. Kaushik Basu’s article, ‘About divinity’ (IE, March7), comes as a shot in the arm and his so-called third hypothesis — “there is god but he is not that powerful” — is just the fillip I needed.