The legendary Gandhian

just whom would you vote for as the greatest Gandhian in the Indian sub-continent of the post-Independence era? Our vote will unhesitatingly go to the Pakistani social scientist Akhtar Hameed Khan, in whose memory social activists from all over Pakistan met on October 12, 2000, his first death anniversary in Karachi.

The biggest contribution that Hameed Khan made to society was to correct our distorted perception of the poor. Most