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Sunday, March 3, 2013
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LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: The city and the book
By Sheheryar B. Sheikh
“Don’t you just love seeing Lahore like this?” Mohsin Hamid asks the audience. The hall erupts.…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Satire and resistance in literature
Like all literary panels titled so vaguely, the definition of the theme of ‘Satire’ took up several minutes. But…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Stories from Gaza
By Zainab Imam
IF there was one session that you should regret not having attended at the LLF, it was…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Writing from the edge
Pakistani literature is literature from — as Musharraf Ali Farooqi pointed out in the session ‘Globalisation of Pakistan’s Literature’ —…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Manto and Partition
By Umair Khan
The talk given by historian Ayesha Jalal on Saadat Hasan Manto was a unique literary experience. Writer…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Women’s writings about women
By Zara Khadeeja Majoka
IN a recent talk, novelist Nadeem Aslam stressed the importance of paying attention to women, their…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: An evening with Zehra Nigah
By Umair Khan
The session titled ‘Zehra Nigah on Poetry and Translation’ turned out to be ‘Zehra Nigah’s poetry and…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Remembering Benazir
By Zainab Imam
IN the stronghold of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, the session on Benazir Bhutto’s autobiography Daughter of…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Modernity and national narratives
By Ammara Khan
The idea of what is meant by Pakistan as a modern nation state and how it is …
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: The landscape of children’s literature
By Anam Haq
In an effort to accommodate a variety of literature and reading interests, the LLF had a session…
LAHORE LITERARY FESTIVAL: Lahore applauds Lahore
By Zainab Imam
IT came as no surprise that the session ‘Lahore in Literature’ was a love fest, given the…
COLUMN: Family ties by Intizar Husain
PREFACES in most cases are redundant. Intelligent readers often skip them, jumping directly to the book. But this is not…
