LLF offered a reasonably diverse array of literary, musical, political, and historical sessions
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
LLF was in a tug of war with the government but the controversy didn’t take away from its interesting sessions
Updated 06 Mar, 2016 01:30pm
“I burned with a desire to do with the readers what the writers had done to me to inspire that particular feeling ...”
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the session ‘Voices and Verse of Central Asia’
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the session ‘Life With my Father, George Orwell'
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the session ‘Mobilising New Readers’
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the poetry sessions at the LLF
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
The sessions on Urdu commemorated great literary figures and highlighted emerging trends
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
On the sessions that brought together myriad personalities to discuss global current affairs
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
“This is not a crackdown on literature but it is a crackdown on everything ... ”
— Ahdaf Soueif
Updated 28 Feb, 2016 08:30pm
By Muhammad Hassan Haider
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
By SABA IJAZ INDIA, USA, China and Bangladesh — these are the four countries which remain the centre of most...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
THIS year’s LLF paid a great deal of attention to what cartoonist-journalist Joe Sacco calls “the seams of...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
THIS time of the year is literary festival season, and cricket season, and following close on the heels of the...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
THE city is a contested space, drawn and redrawn by its denizens; and the tension that emerges out of these...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
WHEN Naseeruddin Shah comes to town, and the LLF extends you an open invitation to come and hear him speak at the...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
“You can tell [a story] in a dead and lifeless way or you can tell it as a story of human beings interacting with...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
ON comparing this year’s LLF from the previous years, one thing stands out in prominence. This year, there were a...
Published 01 Mar, 2015 06:59am
