Sunday, 12 February 2012

The clash of languages “English is also a regional language,”

Karachi

Overawed faces were fixed at Vikram Seth. The snake-shaped line of anxious people waiting to get their freshly-bought books signed by the British novelist of Indian origin was growing in length. Pakistan’s celebrity English novelist Mohammed Hanif, sitting next to him, was equally engrossed in signing copies of his ‘Our Lady of Alice Bhatti’; though he had enough time to occasionally run his fingers through his unkempt hair. A couple of yards from the writers’ signing booth

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