KLF2014

Organisers expect a large number of schoolchildren at the two-day festival from Feb 21.

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi’s grandson talks to audience at Beach Luxury Hotel about Bapu, Partition and Sindh again.

Pioneers of the field lament the lack of regard for theatre, one of the oldest art forms, in Pakistan.

Current education model based on learning things you think you need in order to get job you want, says Paul Collard.

Sessions like that of Sharmeen Obaid are thought provoking and leave individual feeling positive about Pakistan.

Balochistan — a national treasure buried too deep in ignorance to be celebrated.

1st launch was compilation of interviews of 20 stalwart Pakistani women, 2nd addressed what was wrong with Pakistan.

According to KLF 2014's website, 'Navid Shahzad is known as an actor, poet, journalist and television pioneer.'

Hoori Noori says in book consumption we are far behind Iran and India, let alone the developed world.

This is not to say that Nandy enjoys ruffling feathers.

A great deal of the session was a continuation of Saturday’s ‘Afghanistan 2014: consequences for Pakistan’...

'It’s a reference book about communities settled in Pakistan and their cuisine, the recipes were an after thought.'

Rise in extremism in Pakistan is fabricated, people should challenge it, says journalist and author Raza Rumi.

Habib Jalib’s daughter Tahira has similar impact on audience when she finishes reading her father’s masterpiece.

'In best of circumstances, we will be faced with influx of another 2 million refugees,' says former diplomat Shaikh.

Sindhi writer Sindhu moderates New Voices in Sindhi Poetry session, two speakers invited were female Sindhi poets.

Rubina Saigol, independent writer, says there was a vast difference in text books before and after 1965.

Raza Rumi’s launches his book followed by a discussion on Pakistani nationalism.

Zehra Nigha’s reading and Bilal Tanweer’s book launch mark the class difference of literary expression.

A couple of minutes later, speakers burst into life and a melodic voice started singing a song in Urdu and Persian.

It seems difficult, then, to dismiss the lack of cultural context for a western audience as external pressure.

The Quaid-e-Azam University professor argued that at impressionable ages, students are taught hate material.

What worries Hoodbhoy, in context of Pakistani society, is existing state of both the academia and the professionals.

Not just about the partition, his book is covers 240 years of Punjab - end of Mughal Empire to end of British Empire.

This pictorial poetry book is written in a philosophical way mainly for teenagers.

Asma laments that those who call themselves modern and progressive lack consensus.

Former diplomats at KLF’s session on geo-politics talked about the country’s troubled present and bleak future.

Writing in English has grown exponentially and works are not disconnected from identity, realities of Pakistanis.

While he loves begum, Saleem said actor Bushra Ansari’s bijli, a character she played in PTV skit, was more...

Education sector takes pummelling from politicos because they know how to profit from it.

Sharing her preference for nazms over ghazals, Sani said that she loves the aspect of storytelling that poetry offers.

The brains behind the first English Islamic art magazine talk of their experience.

One of fiestier moments of the session were when diplomat Zafar Hilaly challenged both Noorani’s premises and...

Speakers agreed that while Faiz, the man, is forgotten, Faiz, the poet, will never be.

Between market trends, what publishers want and readers becoming conservative, the session seemed like a stock report.

For Mustansir Hussain Tarar, inspiration to write has come from books he has read and from observing his surroundings.

Mirza accepted writing for art is not as popular in Pakistan as hardly one per cent of population reads art critique.

Reporting in Pakistan had changed especially in cases like some political parties, the military and extremist groups.

After he read some parts of the book, he added that the country was created under idealism.

Rukshsana Ahmed talks about ‘Memory and the Imagination’.

Dr Rajmohan Gandhi speaks at the Beach Luxury on the first day of the 5th Karachi Literature Festival.

Author’s animated readings has audience in fits of laughter on first day of fifth KLF .

Gandhi said that most versions of Pak-India history spewed hatred, there was more of focus on what politicians did.