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On the declining popularity of English poetry
Most schools focus on teaching English language, but do not teach it through literature, Samina Rahman.
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‘Violence must be kept out of children’s books’
Nina Marie Fite, Musharraf Farooqi and Baela Jamil discuss education through story-telling.
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Ayesha Jalal: ‘Manto is best read in his own language’
Dr Jalal said Manto embellished a historian’s craft into fictional narrative.
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From past to present
‘Women [writers] have a different take on several issues’.
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‘A ‘barren period’ is a natural progression after decades of greatness’
Panellists discuss whether the future holds hope for Urdu, especially literature.
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Tehmina Durrani: ‘My family disowned me for 13 years’
Tehmina Durrani talks to a jam-packed hall, her first public appearance in over 12 years.
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Bapsi Sidhwa: ‘I was a lucky girl’
Bapsi Sidhwa talks about what drew her to writing and what followed.
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Unanswered questions about ‘missing stories’
Mohammed Hanif talks about missing Baloch and the Pakistan Army.
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Do we ever learn from history?
Ahmed Rashid and William Dalrymple speak about Afghanistan, Taliban and whether David Cameron should apologise.
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Lahore Literary Festival: ‘Give peace a chance’
Poets old and new read their verse at mushaira.
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Lahore Literary Festival 2013: Poet and writer reminisce
Zehra Nigah and Intezar Hussain recall ‘those early days’
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Lahore Literary Festival: ‘The story chooses you and keeps you interested’
Mueenuddin, Thayil, Koch and Naqvi speak about locations, the discomfort of writing and doubt.
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LLF 2013: A walk through Blind Man’s Garden with Nadeem Aslam
The blind man is Jinnah, envisioning a country on the basis of amazing ideas: Author
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‘Lahore’s beyond any definition, it can only be felt’
Pran Nevile, Bapsi Sidhwa and Intezar Hussain remember their Lahore.
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Sovereignty, taxes and minorities’ rights
Ayesha Jalal, Tariq Ali and Francis Robinson explore Pakistan’s path to becoming a modern state.
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Umrao Jan to Gohar Jan: Women who ‘ruled’ India
The session The Courtesan in Literature: Umrao Jan to Gohar Jan focused on South Asia’s romance with courtesans.
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Shazaf Fatima: ‘Satire is like a sugarcoated pill’
Satire is always read like a story about someone else, not you, says Moni Mohsin.
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‘Even right-wing literature is a form of resistance’
Discussion on ‘Literature of Resistance’ at the LLF included writers Selma Dabbagh, Basharat Peer and Mohammed...
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‘Hold literary festivals in all big cities’
Hameed Haroon discusses glorification of jihadi in popular culture.
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South Asia has no partition monument: Ali
Neither Pakistan nor India had built even a single memorial for the victims of partition, says writer Tariq Ali.
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LLF 2013: ‘The key is to write about what you know’
Daniyal Mueenuddin, Moni Mohsin, Musharraf Ali Farooqi on Globalisation of Pakistani Literature.
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Art exhibition: Lahore, Lahore hai
8 pieces by 4 artists on display at the Rohtas II Art Gallery.
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Emerging talent: Afia Aslam of the Desi Writers Lounge on LLF and aspiring writers
Critique and online workshops help young writers mature.
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Literary festival: ‘Good fiction all about storytelling’
Farooqi’s latest novel, Between Clay and Dust, has been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize.
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Back to Lahore: Bapsi Sidhwa in town for literary festival
The Urdu translation of her first novel The Croweaters will also be launched here.
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The blind man’s garden: Nadeem to launch novel at festival
It was also short-listed for the IMPAC Prize, and won the Encore Award as well as the Kiriyama Prize.
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Literary event: Sidhwa to launch Junglewalla at Alhamra on 23rd
Sidhwa is one of the first Pakistanis writing in English to win international acclaim.