The documentary, “Salam,” produced by Omar Vandal and Zakir Thaver was screened at the Mumbai International Film Festival Jan. 29.
Source/Credit: India West
By IANS | February 22, 2018
The baffling and paradoxical life of Dr. Abdus Salam, the first Pakistani, and Muslim, to win a Nobel Prize for Physics, is the subject of a compelling documentary by New York-based Indian American filmmaker Anand Kamalakar.
Salam (1926-1996) is a dichotomous figure in the world of science. He once said: “I would never have started to work on the subject (physics) if I was not a Muslim.” Yet, in his lifetime, not only was he shunned by Pakistan, the place of his birth, because he belonged to the outlawed Ahmadiyya sect, but had the misfortune of standing up for science in a country that had no particular interest in it.
He received his Ph.D. in quantum electrodynamics at 24, and went on to do pioneering work in physics. It was only because of Pakistan’s strategic interest in developing nuclear weapons, in whose early development Salam played a crucial role, that he had a brief period of official patronage.
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