ABN Show on May 31st on Swat Relief efforts ; Urdu Hindi Divide

Posted by Prod Q on May 31, 2009

Hour 1: Youth Show
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Hour 2 : Rountable Discussion with prominent bloggers, Teeth Maestro , Adil Najam and Ifaqeer on current situation in Swat, update from Teeth Maestro on his relief efforts. Role of digital activism in this crisis
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Hour 3: Interview with Dr.Abdul Jamil Khan on his book “Urdu Hindi , an artificial divide”.
Abdul Jamil Khan, M.D., of New York, served as chairman of a teaching hospital and a professor of pediatrics specialized in infant speech development; he has now extended himself into linguistics studies, challenged by the pseudo science of race- and religion- driven linguistics, which he implicates in the anti-Semitic holocaust; its Indian parallel, the partition massacre; and other human right violations, a gross anathema to a physician-humanist.

Dr. Khan, an author of some hundred medical publications, has lately spoken on humanities, linguistics and cultural themes at universities and elsewhere, including Brooklyn Historical society. He also authored a book on his Afghan ancestors’ migration to India. Dr. Khan is a co-editor of a periodical “Health Message” and has received media attention in the US and in India. He was featured by Brad Gooch in God Talk (Random House 2002), and Linda Cateura in Voices of American Muslims (Hippocrene Books 2005).
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