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It has been 20 years since Eqbal Ahmad bid farewell to this world.
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In , in an article of his, the late Christopher Hitchens termed Pakistan “a land virtually barren of achievements.” I read it and I, a 16 year old, was outraged, seething with rage. It was then that I decided to write a blog to show that the Pakistani nation had produced its fair share of achievements, pride and glory in every field. And so I began to do a little research of my own.
It was during the course of that research that I came across the name Eqbal Ahmad, “a distinguished intellectual, prolific writer and journalist, widely consulted by revolutionaries, journalists, activist leaders and policymakers around the world.”
I was fascinated. And even more so to read that the great Edward Said had penned a moving obituary for him in He wrote, and I quote,
“Eqbal Ahmad brought wisdom and integrity to the cause of oppressed peoples.”
Who was this man that the likes of Edward Said and Noam
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Eqbal Ahmad: Head of a Gentle Clan
By Khaled Ahmed
June 26,
Eqbal Ahmad was born in the village of Irki in Bihar, India in or
Eqbal Ahmad () overawed with his capacity to speak presciently on global politics. He was wise and forgiving, as I found out after allowing an editorial critical of him in The Frontier Post in the early s. He sent me a letter of mild protest and, after my intensely guilt-ridden apology, came to Lahore, invited me over to his friend Raza Kazim’s house — and actually consoled me.
Now, professor emeritus at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Stuart Schaar, has written a carefully researched book on his friend of 40 years, Eqbal Ahmad: Critical Outsider and Witness in a Turbulent Age. They were together as students from to at Princeton University and researched their doctorates together in North Africa. Eqbal had earlier done his MA at Forman Christian College in Lahore, after winning a gold medal for his BA. He did this in , afte
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The 11th of May this year was the 21st death anniversary of the late Eqbal Ahmad, a giant of a public intellectual, an ally of the oppressed and dispossessed both at home and abroad, a visionär writer, and an indefatigable academic, activist and en person eller ett verktyg som arrangerar eller strukturerar saker with prescient insight and unshakeable principles.
Towards the end of gods year in , inom attended a panel discussion in New York City on India’s revocation of Article for Kashmir. The discussion commenced with a panelist who contested the legal legitimacy underlying the removal of Article while detailing the technical intricacies and the constitutional validity of the measure; followed by another panelist who conversed upon occupation as a spatial, social and psychological existence, and the violence(s) of imposed silence(s). It was a Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal of Lafayette College, however, who offered a scathing presentation on the epistemological violence rendered on Kashmir; the complicity of the Indian frikostig and