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Not many people read books in Pakistan. How then are the bookshops coping with the pandemic?
Paradoxically, however, the small market for books may actually have been growing before the virus struck. Liberty Books, Lahore.
I hoard books like old desi aunties hoard bobby pins. A visit to any of Pakistan’s top bookstores – whether it is Reading’s, Liberty, The Last Word, Vanguard or Variety – ends with me walking to the check-out counter with a heap of books, heavier than a boulder and more expensive than a week’s groceries.
My daughter, on the other hand, is all about minimalism. Her stock usually comes from Reading’s online store and then she only buys what she’s sure to read. She stares at my receipt at the bookstore check-out counter and rolls her eyes at me. “Liberty Books is 30% off for the World Book Day sale online.” She says.
Farewell I.A. Rehman (1930 – 2021): Pakistan’s Awakener Who Fell Asleep
His lifelong relationship with the protection of human rights and freedom of expression will be remembered forever in the history of Pakistan.
The author with Rehman at the session on Literature, Language and Technology in the Time of COVID-19 at the 23rd Sustainable Development Conference, Islamabad in December 2020. Raza Naeem 2021-04-29T15:51:16+05:30 Farewell I.A. Rehman (1930 – 2021): Pakistan’s Awakener Who Fell Asleep outlookindia.com 2021-04-29T15:53:52+05:30
I.A. Rehman, Pakistan’s renowned journalist and human rights icon passed away earlier this month on April 12 at the age of 90. His life was spread from the progressive movement in Aligarh University to the movement for human and worker rights in South Asia, and he was among those who were afflicted by the Partition of the subcontinent and his relatives were also killed in the riots.
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