Sunday, 24 February 2013
Karachi Literature Festival: Tales from Punjab
What, precisely, is Punjabiyat? Is it the Yash Chopra vision of men and women in bright shalwar kurtas doing bhangra? Or is it the dominance of a province in the state, military and popular culture? Mohammed Hanif was as confused as the other panellists of the enigmatically called session ‘Punjabiyat’ on the third day of the KLF. Nadeem Aslam, who grew up in Gujranwala, said that as a child, “my idea was that Punjabi was spoken around the world.” This naivety came from seeing Sikh
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