Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy at Democracy Dialogues on 9th October 2022

 

Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series (Online )
Organised by New Socialist Initiative

19th Lecture

Topic: The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions

Speaker: Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy

Date and Time:  9th October  2022  at 6 PM (IST).

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Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, eminent physicist, author, public intellectual and a forceful voice for reason,science and democracy will be delivering the 19th Democracy Dialogues lecture on Sunday, October 9th, 2022 at 6 PM (IST)

Topic: The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions

Seventy five years after the communal storm of 1947 countless important questions still remain. From among them I will concentrate upon three which are particularly important in understanding the past but which, in addition, continue to influence current trajectories.                                                                                                                                                                1. How, when, and why did the two-nation theory emerge?

2. Why is Pakistan a praetorian state but India is not?

3. Was Partition preventable and had it not happened what might have been the consequences?

Speaker: Pervez Hoodbhoy is a nuclear physicist, a frequent commentator on Pakistani television channels, founder-director of The Black Hole in Islamabad, and an author. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT and taught physics at Quaid-e-Azam University for 47 years. 

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