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Lahore Literary Festival 2021 honours Indian writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
By News Desk| Updated: 27th February 2021 8:54 pm IST
Fakir Syed Aijazuddin
A book is a human mind compressed between two covers. A library is an orderly arrangement of books. And a virtual Literature Festival is an aggregation of authors, on-screen, without their books.
Covid-19 forced the Lahore Literature Festival to go virtual this year. Since its inception in 2012, the LLF’s intellectual vitality has contributed to its home-city being recognised by UNESCO as the ‘City of Literature’ in Pakistan. LLF 2021 helps one understand why.
This year, its founder Razi Ahmed and his intrepid team, undaunted by the virus, brought together a spectrum of successful writers, savants, discussants and experts – from frozen Saskatoon in Canada to smog-shrouded New Delhi. LLF 2021 delivered authors into our homes. For four days, we luxuriated in their company as pampered couch potatoes.
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