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LAHORE: The Lahore Literary Festival started on Thursday with several sessions across a spectrum of topics. In one of them, author and Barrister (Queen’s Counsel) Marina Wheeler sat in conversation with Newsweek Pakistan’s culture editor, Nelofar Bakhtyar. The conversation was focused on the situation of Punjab as seen by Wheeler’s mother, as she grew up there during the Raj, and also seeing Partition. The book titled ‘The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab is’, is a memoir of Wheeler’s mother’s life, where she confronts what she calls an ‘uncomfortable heritage’. “I got the idea for this book when it was the 70th anniversary of independence, or what the British refer to as the ‘transfer of power’, which also created a lot of interest in the UK,” she said. “I watched a lot of coverage with my mother. I realised she had been there. I was curious to know more about that. Empire being a difficult subject in the UK, meant I knew less about

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