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Karachi Literature Festival: Mirror, mirror
By Saba Imtiaz
The Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) isn’t just a space for readers to connect with their favourite authors…
Karachi Literature Festival: Voices of the missing
Farzana Majeed’s voice resonated through the garden as she explained what happened to her brother at the session on the…
Karachi Literature Festival: Karachi hamara hai!
By Zainab Imam
‘The Dynamics of Karachi’: (L to R) Bina Shah, Laurent Gayer, Aquila Ismail and Steve Inskeep —…
Karachi Literature Festival: Tales from Punjab
What, precisely, is Punjabiyat? Is it the Yash Chopra vision of men and women in bright shalwar kurtas doing bhangra?…
Karachi Literature Festival: The world and literature
ON September 12, 2001, author Kamila Shamsie met Mohsin Hamid and asked: “What about that novel you were writing?” Hamid…
Karachi Literature Festival: The novel in English
By Haneen Rafi
Pakistanis writing fiction in English were the celebrities in town over the weekend of the KLF. They…
Karachi Literature Festival: An Urdu Perspective
By Humair Ishtiaq
PAINTING a large canvass has its own rewards and pitfalls, and writing a novel entails both elements…
Karachi Literature Festival: The relevance of the greats
By Peerzada Salman
The KLF had at least three sessions on Manto, two of which were performances. While all of…
Karachi Literature Festival: In conversation with Amar Jaleel
By Attiya Dawood
Amar Jaleel, one of the most prominent contemporary Sindhi fiction writers and columnists, has a distinct style.…
Karachi Literature Festival: Curtains not yet down on Pakistani cinema
Though the session ‘The Rise and Fall of Pakistani Cinema’ was short of one of its participants — actor Javed…
Karachi Literature Festival: Enlightenment in the Pakistani context
By Sumera S. Naqvi
IN the session ‘Cultural Enlightenment: Challenge and Opportunity’ the moderator had to pull out at the…
