Friday, 15 February 2013

Literature festival 2013: just what the doctor ordered

Karachi

 

Is it not “callous” to organise a literature festival in a tumultuous city where barely a day passes by without drive-by killings and unpredictable outbreaks of violence have become its only predictable aspect? The answer – on the contrary: “that is exactly what Karachi needs”.

 

“It’s like a balm. A healing touch,” responded Ameena Saiyid, the managing director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, when Asif Farrukhi, the moderator of

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