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2006-08-27 India-Pakistan

Intellectual Discourse in Pakistan: An Indian Visitor's Perspective

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Posted by john 2006-08-27 10:26|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Punjab University in Lahore, the largest university in the country, I discovered, does not possess a single bookshop

But it has 3 mosques on the campus. No wonder they need Cuban scholarships.

Posted by john 2006-08-27 10:33|| 2006-08-27 10:33|| Front Page Top

#2 I could not help contrast this to what I had been reared on in the five years that I spent at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where almost every day we were treated to a talk or a seminar by intellectuals, politicians, journalists and social activists on a whole range of pressing social issues

In other words the author was himself brainwashed for 5 years.
JNU faculty is dominated by marxists. Many of the maoists in Nepal are graduates.

Posted by john 2006-08-27 10:38|| 2006-08-27 10:38|| Front Page Top

#3 What we have here is a marxist trying to make commmon cause with islamists and being terribly disappointed when the reality of islamist life hits him in the face.

Posted by john 2006-08-27 10:43|| 2006-08-27 10:43|| Front Page Top

#4 "Intellectual Discourse in Pakistan"

What intellectual discourse?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-27 12:20|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-08-27 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 The author is right for all the wrong reasons, as usual when some communist writes something interesting. Stopped clocks and all that.

Posted by Cluck Glulet6232 2006-08-27 13:31|| 2006-08-27 13:31|| Front Page Top

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