THAAP Talk Series: People’s History of Pakistan
23rd THAAP Talk by Mr. Tahir Mehdi
Mr. Tahir Mehdi has kindly agreed to give the 23rd THAAP Talk on
“GAWALAY OF LAHORE: A history of resistance against land grabbers and corporate onslaught”
SATURDAY, APRIL 04, 2015 at 6 pm, 43-G, Gulberg-III, Lahore, Pakistan
Presentation:
“Gawalay of Lahore: A history of resistance against land grabbers and corporate onslaught”
Speaker: Mr. Tahir Mehdi
Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Anis A. Siddiqi
The talk is about the untold story of peri-urban milk entrepreneurs of Lahore who fought against much more powerful and highly sophisticated adversaries in market, in ‘battlefield’ and in courts of law and survived.
Mr. Tahir Mehdi works at Punjab Lok Sujag, an advocacy and research organization that aims to put ‘local issues high on global agenda’. He is also a part-time journalist writing mostly for dawn.com
Punjab Research Group 
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