Clockwise from top left: Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, Eman Omar, Michele Hutchison, Joanna McCalmont and Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
This year’s Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) provided space for many book launches and conversations with an array of authors from different parts of the world. From architectural influences derived from the Islamic world, to the historical significance of horses in the Subcontinent, audiences were spoiled for choice with the variety of topics discussed.
Marina Wheeler was one such writer who paid homage to her roots in the launch of her book, Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab. Offering different perspectives on the British empire and Partition, Wheeler’s memoir traces her mother Kuldip ‘Dip’ Singh’s journey during the Raj and her experience of Partition.