8-MINUTE VIDEOS BY PERVEZ HOODBHOY
- Swindles In Science
A car that would run only on water enthralled Pakistan. How can we save ourselves from such embarrassments in future? - سائنس کے ڈبل شاہ
اس غیر منطقی دعوے نے کہ ایک گاڑی محض پانی پر بھی چل سکتی ھے، پوری پاکستانی قوم کو اپنے شکنجے میں جکڑ لیا۔ ھم مستقبل میں خود کو ایسی کسی شرمندگی سے کیسے محفوظ رکھ سکتے ھیں؟ - Why Ideology?
Many people never ask, never question. They simply believe. Could this be because of human biology? - نظریے کی ضرورت؟
بیشتر لوگ سوچ بچار نہیں کرتے، اور سوال اٹھانے سے گریزاں رھتے ھیں۔ وہ محض یقین رکھنا جانتے ھیں۔ ایسا کیوں ھے؟ - Rich Countries And Poor Countries. Why?
Culture is critical in deciding between poverty and progress. But which aspects of culture? - امیر اور غریب ممالک – آخر کیوں؟
غربت اور ترقی کے مابین فیصلہ کن فرق کرنے میں کلچر ایک اھم کردار ادا کرتا ھے۔ آئیے دیکھیں کہ اس ضمن میں کلچر کے کون کون سے پہلو اھم ھیں۔ - How Much Should You Fear Death
Obsessive fear of death can cause anxiety disorder. A realistic view is necessary if you want to lead a normal and happy life. - موت سے کتنا ڈرنا چاھئیے؟
موت کا خوف اگر حد سے تجاوز کر جائے تو آپ نفسیاتی الجھنوں کا شکار ہو سکتے ہیں۔ ایک معتدل اور مطمئن زندگی گزارنے کے لئے موت کے بارے میں ایک حقیقت پسندانہ تصور ضروری ہے۔
DOCUMENTARY FILM
- Stories My Country Told Me
The BBC documentary hosted by Eqbal Ahmad in 1996..
PAKISTAN’S EDUCATION PROBLEMS BY DR. A.H. NAYYAR
- What Are They Teaching Non-Muslim Students In Pakistan?
- Violating the constitution, Pakistan’s education system forces Non-Muslim students to learn Islamic teachings in their courses. Presented by Dr. A.H. Nayyar.
- غیر مسلم بچوں کو پاکستان میں کیا پڑھایا جا رہا ہے؟
کیا آپ کو معلوم ھے کہ ھمارا موجودہ نظام تعلیم، آئین پاکستان کی خلاف ورزی کرتے ھوئے غیر مسلم بچوں کو پاکستان میں اسلامی دینی تعلیم حاصل کرنے پر مجبور کرتا ھے؟ ٖڈاکٹر عبد الحمید نیر کی پیشکش۔
TALKS
- The Rise of Unreason – TEDx Islamabad
Once evidence becomes irrelevant, everything becomes possible. Speaker: Pervez Hoodbhoy. - کیا مدارس جہالت زدہ سوچ کو فروغ دے رھے ھیں؟
کیا وفاقی وزیر پرویز رشید کا یہ بیان کہ مدارس جہالت زدہ سوچ کو فروغ دے رھے ھیں، درست ھے؟ پرویز ھود بھائی، مفتی نعیم اور رانا ثناء اللہ کے مابین مباحثہ۔
WRITINGS BY DR. KHALID SOHAIL
URDU POETRY BY FAQEER SEIN
Click here to read selective poetry of Faqeer Sein
WRITINGS BY PERVEZ HOODBHOY
- Abducting Social Activists
- A Secular Pakistan Is Inevitable
- Balakot After The Earthquake
- Can It Rain If You Pray?
- Can The Left Become Relevant To Islamic Pakistan?
- Culture, Corruption And The Hereafter
- Defeating Religious Terrorism
- Eqbal Ahmed – The Man Who Inspired a Generation
- Faheem Hussain – As I Knew Him
- Healing Our Sectarian Divide
- How Education Fuels Religious Terrorism
- How Can the Pakistani Left Become Relevant?
- How Muslims Lost Their Way
- How TV Dupes Our Public
- Is Human Morality Innate?
- Islam And Pluralism In The Modern Muslim State
- Islam And Science – Unhappy Bedfellows
- Islam’s Cultural Revolution
- Is Pakistan’s Problem Urdu?
- It Wasn’t The Final Atrocity
- Jamil Omar – Indomitable Fighter – Rest in Peace
- Lal Masjid – Rewarding an Insurrection
- Let Us Become – Proudly – Bayghairat
- Math in Our Madressahs?
- Muslim Re-Enlightenment – How Much Further To Go
- More Lethal Than RAW
- Mosque versus State
- Our Zealot Factories
- On Choosing Popes And Caliphs
- Okara’s Reign Of Terror
- Pakistan – Awaiting the Clerical Tsunami
- Pakistan – The Threat From Within
- Pakistan In The Year 3000
- Pakistan’s Cultural Revolution
- Piety For Profit
- Reinventing Pakistan
- Roots Of Extremism
- Religious Persecution in Pakistan
- Remembering Salmaan Taseer
- Shahbag Square – Why We Pakistanis Don’t Know and Don’t Care?
- Shia, Ahmadi, Hindu – Run For Your Life
- The Rise of Unreason
- Women On Motorbikes – What’s The Problem?
- Whither Pakistan? A Five-Year Forecast
- Why Liberals Are Losing?
- Why Pakistan Is Not a Nation and How It Could Become One
- Why Sir Syed Loses and Allama Iqbal Wins in Pakistan
- Why Do They Pick On Us Pakistanis?
- Why Eqbal Ahmad Remains Important Today
- Why Karachi Burns Again And Again
8-MINUTE VIDEOS
These videos are presented by Pervez Hoodbhoy.
- A Clash of Civilizations?
Many think that Islam and the West are at war with each other. True? Let’s have a second look. - تہزیبوں کا تصادم؟
بہت سے لوگوں کا خیال ھے کہ اسلام اور مغرب ایک دوسرے کے ساتھ حالت جنگ میں ھیں۔ کیا یہ سوچ درست ھے؟ آئیے اس کو ایک دوسرے رخ سے دیکھتے ھیں۔ - The Downside of Nationalism
The world is integrated economically and yet torn apart by nationalist fervor. Why? After all, you and I had no choice in choosing our parents or our country. - قوم پرستی کے منفی اثرات
دنیا اقتصادی طور پر مربوط ھونے کے باوجود قوم پرستی کے جذبے سے سرشار نظر آتی ھے۔ ایسا کیوں ھے؟ آخر کار، آپ اورمیں اپنے والدین یا ملک کا انتخاب کرنے کا اختیار نہیں رکھتے۔ - Nationalist Movements – Good or Bad?
Thousands have been killed in the separatist struggles against the central authority of various nation states in South Asia. Whose side should one be on? - کیا قوم پرست تحریکیں حمایت کی مستحق ہیں؟
جنوبی ایشیاء میں مختلف اقوام کے ھزاروں لوگ سنٹرل اتھارٹی کے خلاف علیحدگی کی جدوجہد میں مارے جا چکے ھیں۔ ایک فرد کو کس کی طرف داری کرنی چاھئیے۔
SPEECHES
These speeches are delivered by Eqbal Ahmad:
- Eqbal Ahmad in 1982: The Israeli threat and US dominance
From Uprising Radio & Pacifica Radio Archives. Recording of Eqbal Ahmad speaking in July 1982 about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. - Terrorism: Theirs and Ours
Eqbal Ahmad speaking at University of Colorado on October 12, 1998 just a few months before his death. He talked about who and what defines terrorism.
TALK
- Did India Cause 2010 Floods?
In the book ironically titled ‘Reality of Floods in Pakistan’, the author claims that there is documentary proof of India causing floods in Pakistan. Here’s a public debate upon it.
DOCUMENTARY FILM
- Crossing The Lines – Kashmir, Pakistan, India (2004)
This path-breaking independent documentary film, made in Pakistan, challenges us to look at Kashmir with new eyes and to hope for a new way forward.Produced by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian.
WRITINGS BY DR. RAVI SINHA
- A Future for the Left
- Global Capital, Compliant Nation-States and Totalitarian Communities: Three Formidable Barriers to the Advance of Democracy
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Problems of Democracy under Capitalism and Socialism
- Lessons for the Saner Segments of the Margins
- Manifesto of the New Socialist Initiative: A World for the Workers
- Mutant Modernities, Socialist Futures
- On Continuum – A Talk for Children
- On Religion and Politics
- On Transformative Politics
- Theses on India
- Through Theory and Politics: A Trajectory for the New Socialist Initiative
WRITINGS BY PERVEZ HOODBHOY
- Afghanistan – What Should Pakistan Do?
- Awaiting Musharraf’s Enlightened Moderation
- Americans And Saudis: Hands Off Pakistan’s Pipeline Please!
- Between Imperialism And Islamism
- Bin Laden And Hiroshima
- Bridging The Islam-West chasm
- Baloch And Sindhis – Don’t Want An Islamic Monoculture
- Benazir Bhutto Assassination – Interview By Danish
- Benazir Bhutto Assassination – Interview By Stefania Maurizi
- Can Pakistan Work? – Commentary On Stephan Cohen
- Cooling Down Kashmir
- Comment On Justine Podur
- Deepening The Pakistan-India Divide
- Defeating terrorism In Pakistan – What Will It Take?
- Drones – Theirs And Ours
- Droning Mullah Fazlullah
- Does Pakistan Still Need Nazarriyah-e-Pakistan?
- Education – The PTI’s False Promises Won’t Help
- Elections 2013 – Will They Make A Difference?
- End of Enlightenment?
- Free Laptops Is Not the Answer
- Global Dominance versus Global Disarmament
- Genes And The Blasphemy Meme
- Genesis of Global Jihad in Afghanistan
- How Musharraf Survives (2005)
- Imperialism And Islamism – A View From The Left
- Imperialism Versus Islamism (Urdu)
- Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, And The Islamic Bomb
- Iraq Invasion – A War on Islam
- Is 911 Why Pakistan Went Under?
- Iran’s Bomb And Pakistan
- Is Kashmir Ready For A Farewell To Arms?
- Is Rohrabacher Wrong On Balochistan?
- Jamil Omar – Indomitable Fighter – Rest in Peace
- Just Before The Iraq War (2003)
- Jinnah And The Islamic State
- Kashmir – An Infrastructure Of Hope
- Kashmir Documentary (Questions)
- Kashmir: Hard Choices Only
- Killing Without Passion, War Without Valor
- Miracles, War and Politics
- Mosque versus State
- Mumbai Massacre
- Musharraf’s Coup – 7 Years Later
- Negotiate With the TTP
- Okara’s Peasants And Pakistani Democracy
- Our Zealot Factories
- Pakistan, The Army And The War Within
- The Pervaiz Rasheed Affair
- Pakistan’s Paranoid Politics
- Pluralism And Qazi Husain Ahmad Of Jamaat-e-Islami
- Post-Osama Pakistan – Shall It Remain A Warrior State?
- Preventing A Taliban Victory
- Recapturing North Waziristan: A tragic necessity
- Saudiization of Pakistan (2008)
- Should Student Unions Be Permitted?
- Q&A On Israel
- Siege of Islamabad: what next?
- States Under Siege And The Rise Of Political Islam
- The Curious Case Of Osama Bin Laden
- The Establishment’s Dilemma
- The Hanging of Mir Quasem Ali
- The Iraq War From Islamabad
- Towards Theocracy
- Understanding The LoC Flare-up
- US Defeat Won’t Be Afghan Victory
- What After Waziristan?
- When Manmohan Singh Comes To Islamabad
- Why Faisal Shahzad Bombed Times Square
- Why Maulana Qadri and Cricketer Khan Can’t Save Pakistan
- Why Musharraf Should Go
- Why Remain a Petro-puppet?
- Why They Killed Arif Shahid
- Yes, It Is Our War (2007)