Saturday, 18 February 2012

Revisiting the festival 3rd Karachi Literature Festival

BY the end of it all, even the tone of someone as self-indulgent as Hanif Kureishi had softened. His preconceived notions about Karachi (and the ideas that he developed in his last visit to the city a quarter century back) had been altered.

In his first stint at the microphone on the opening day of the 3rd Karachi Literature Festival he was unforgiving and quick to pour scorn on Karachi suggesting it ‘was run-down, rough and in decay’. But in his last speech at the conclusion of the

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