It’s time new topics were introduced
KARACHI: The ninth edition of the Karachi Literature Festival commenced on Friday, February 9, 2018. While it is commendable that the organisers have managed to sustain an annual literature fest in a country where there is a shrinking audience for literature, we can’t deny that the sessions on the three-day festival are becoming increasingly repetitive. For instance, the emergence of cinema in Pakistan is a topic that finds its place year after year. This is not to say that the cinema industry is not witnessing a revival but repeating how it has done that and how cinema was previously becomes rather boring. It takes up space and time for a session that indeed could have been refreshing and thought-provoking. And this is just to name a single session from a list of others that find their slot every year. It’s time new topics were introduced.
Beena Khalid
Published in The Express Tribune, February 10th, 2018.
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