[WSMDiscuss] Prof Pervez Hoodbhoy to deliver lecture on 'The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions' in the Democracy Dialogues Series, organised by New Socialist Initiative, on Sunday 9 th October 2022, at 6 PM (IST)

[Subhash Gatade]

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?


   1.

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

   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.


Please reserve the date and time.

The lecture will be held on zoom and for security reasons the link will be
shared individually only closer to the event. Please write to us at
democracydialogues at gmail.com if you want to join the lecture online.

It will also be live streamed at facebook.com/newsocialistinitiative.nsi
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