NEW DELHI — In a quiet hall at the Constitution Club, just a stone’s throw from India’s Parliament, two men sat across from each other to argue a question as old as humanity itself: Does God exist? On one side was Javed Akhtar, 79, the legendary Bollywood lyricist and fierce advocate for secular rationalism, himself a product of the intellectual culture of Aligarh Muslim University. On the other was Mufti Shamail Nadwi, a young, tech-savvy Islamic scholar from Kolkata. For two hours, the air was thick not with the usual shouting matches of Indian cable news, but with the heavy … Continue reading The Lyricist and the Mufti: A Search for God in a Divided Age