KARACHI: “I cannot do much if people do not want to know about Baloch literature,” Ayub Baloch politely said in response to a question at a morning session of the fifth Karachi Literature Festival on Sunday.
The session held in early hours on ‘Baloch Literature and Landscape’ attracted a large number of people.
Most people in the audience were curious about the culture known more because of ‘insurgency’ rather than writers it produced over the years.
There was so much that the people wanted to ask, and yet the time was short. Having a good grasp of history of the province, moderator Baela Raza Jamil tried her best to allot each of the panellists enough time to speak. A scholar with a focus on anthropology, Ayub Baloch spoke at length about the unique culture and literature of Balochistan, which is not discussed as often as it should.
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