An evening with Saiyid Ali Naqvi

Yesterday, 03/29/2013 Syed Suhail Rizvi and Noor Salik spent about 5 plus hours with Saiyid Ali Naqvi.
The session started around 5:00 PM and ended after 10:00 PM.
What is so special about it and why it is being shared with other Thinkers Forum USA affiliates?

Let us start with Saiyid Ali Naqvi:
Saiyid Ali Naqvi is an octogenarian intellectual who can discuss complex issues. He can quote verbatim Ghalib and Iqbal when expressing any literary, philosophic or mystical point of view.

He had his engineering degree from Aligarh University (India) and migrated to Pakistan by choice.
He played important roles in the building of Mangla and Tarbela dams, holding technical and managerial positions.
Recently his 800 plus pages book “Indus Waters and Social Change: The Evolution and Transition of Agrarian Society in Pakistan” has been published by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Some details about the book will be shared with you later on.
He has provided enough information in his book to enable the public, especially the policy makers to hold informed debates in order to resolve the problems impeding the social and economic transformation.

Personally I wanted to sit with him for two reasons:
(1) I could express any point of view without any fear of condemnations.
(2) I want to listen and understand various interpretations of Ghalib’s complex verses.

In regards to TF USA (Thinkers Forum USA) he feels that TF USA affiliates talk about “Religion” especially Islam excessively. There are lots of social and economic topics which need our attention.

He did not fully agree with me when I said “At present time Muslims are more obsessed with religion than any other group”. He said religious fervor is on the rise in the whole world except very few regions.
What are those regions? Let us hear from you – what do you think?

nSalik