The Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) usually involves professional writers and experts sitting and talking to one another in public, sometimes a debate, to provide a form of lively entertainment that highlights key issues in Pakistan. Therefore, the recent Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) that concluded in New York was not too dissimilar from previous years and […]
Mohsin Hamid
‘Exit West’ – the doors will take us
There is an endless tension between the desire to leave your home and being coerced to do so. The coercion paves into a completely alien concept of what ‘home’ means, something Saeed and Nadia face in Mohsin Hamid’s (2017) novel, ‘Exit West’. If you’ve read the book, or even if you haven’t, this struggle sounds […]
A rendezvous with the ‘brilliance’ of Mohsin Hamid
Lahore is a hub of activities, be it carnivals, concerts, food and music festivals or theatrical plays. Lahore Literary Festival held once a year is one such event that is most sought after and long awaited by the Literati of Lahore. We can meet people from historians to journalists and from authors to poets, from […]