RIFLE RANGE BOY

Doctor Strange (2016) They say Dr Strange dabbles with magic in his crusade to fight the destructive forces that attack Earth. An intelligent but arrogant neurosurgeon in the real world, he is floored by a nasty accident that damaged his hands so severely that all the modern medicine could offer could not put his hands in working order again. No amount of aggressive physiotherapy or experimental avant-garde modality of treatment could resurrect his limp hands. They continued tremoring like leaves. At this juncture, he heard of a patient with a transacted spinal cord who attained 100% recovery with alternative therapy when modern science failed him. Dr Steven Strange's subsequent journey for a cure led him to Kathmandu to things beyond his imagination. He got sucked into a world of 'magic', harvesting inner energies, dark forces and alternate dimensions. Things became so complicated that he found himself defending the Universe's right side against the Dark Forces. I coul...

Of late, there have been talks of the need for sermons to be apolitical. Just like civil servants, they should just ease day to day living, not to have any political inclinations, so they say. Scripted Fridays khutbah and Sunday morning sermons are a no no. Just the other day, one of the buddies in the gang of 5 was proposing the idea that religion is indeed a big political party by itself. It toes the line of how one should think and behave in society. It outlines the high priests / scriptures ordained socially acceptable way of living. When man reaches crossroads or is at a dead-end, unable to continue their next plan of action or their 'Plan B', religion provides solace to the heart wrenching broken heart moment. People just get awed by the bigger than life powers of Divinity. For the social outcasts, they are received with open arms with no obligation (so it seems), giving them dignity and strength until they can fly again or be an eternal humble servant of God or th...