KARACHI: When the last iteration of the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) took place in 2020, no one had an inkling that a year later words such as ‘online’ and ‘digital’ would be used by its organisers...
On Friday, the three-day 12th Karachi Literature Festival began at the Beach Luxury Hotel but with the emphasis, by those who run it, that this time around it’s going to be online...
A small girl who I will call Hina, sits perched on a stool, in the one corner of the living room untouched by the light streaming in from a procession of windows...
Everything else is astir; rattling like an incongruous soundtrack to her solitude
Belying the impression that the country has forgotten about the Army Public School martyrs, the second day of the Islamabad Literature Festival opened with an interaction with students and teachers from the ill-fated Peshawar institution...
KARACHI: While the non-arrival of Indian actor-turned-political activist Anupam Kher for the 7th Karachi Literature Festival has stirred a debate lately, nothing will be felt more acutely than the absence of Urdu novelist, short story writer and columnist Intizar Husain who passed away just three days before the opening of the festival on Friday...
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KARACHI: Dusk had just fallen...
But in Karachi, writers and book readers totally eclipsed the planetary spectacle as soon as festivities of the 8th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) began on a temperate Friday evening...
KARACHI: As dusk fell over the port city on Sunday, the book readings, discussions and other learned sessions going on in the different rooms and halls of the Beach Luxury Hotel for the last three days were wrapped up...
As the carpets were being rolled up, the chairs stacked up and books about to be piled up and packed into boxes to be moved back to bookshops and godowns, the entire crowd tried to fit under a huge tent in the hotel...
KARACHI: There was a hint of summer in the air...
The balmy breeze that blows across the Beach Luxury Hotel in the month of February every year has almost become synonymous with the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF)...
KARACHI: There was a hint of cool breeze, just a hint, enough to vindicate the balminess of the Karachi weather at this time of year...
As guests, especially writers and poets, started to step into the Beach Luxury Hotel to take part in the inauguration of the three-day 13th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) on Friday evening, things warmed up...
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Education Rana Mashhood Ahmed on Tuesday conducted a story-telling session at the Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) in the Gulshan-i-Ravi Moon Market ground...
The minister read Amjad Islam Amjad’s poem ‘Hum Hein Phoolon Kay Rakhwalay’ before about 250 boy and girl students of public schools participating in the festival organised by Idara-i-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA)...
KARACHI: The second Sindh Literature Festival (SLF) started on Friday at a local hotel as a folk orchestra played traditional Sindhi tunes while the ribbon was cut by some prominent guests to formally inaugurate the event...
Changing Karachi’s nameMr Shah put forth a proposal to change Karachi’s name to its historical original name of Kalachi as names of many cities in India, including Mumbai, had been changed...
ISLAMABAD: Oxford University Press Pakistan (OUPP) has finalised arrangements for the capital’s third literature festival which begins on Friday...
The three-day festival will feature panel discussions and talks, interviews, book launches and poetry recitals in both English and Urdu...
ISLAMABAD: The fifth Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) began on Friday...
Some 150 speakers from various countries are taking part in the festival, which will consist of 50 sessions...
PESHAWAR: Senior poets and writers here on Sunday sought support of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to conduct a grand literature festival at provincial level on the pattern of Lahore and Karachi...
Through another resolution, they sought financial support to conduct grand literature festival...
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad’s fifth literary festival, which will begin on April 14, will celebrate and analyse 70 years of literature in Pakistan...
Speaking at a press conference at the Margalla Hotel, where the festival will be held, Oxford University Press Managing Director Ameena Saiyid said the Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) is about celebrating writers, poets, reading culture and interacting with the international community... ...
The Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) isn’t playing second fiddle to its more grown-up counterparts anymore: this year’s outing in Islamabad saw thousands of visitors, young and old, flocking to Lok Virsa...
We asked the government on the National Education Policy 2016 - we would live to have youth voice in the curriculum; whether they are students, young teachers...