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THE sitting to pay tribute to Shamsur Rahman Farooqi under way at Arts Council Karachi. White Star
KARACHI: The Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, on Saturday evening held an event to pay tribute to the renowned Indian critic, fiction writer and linguist Shamsur Rahman Farooqi who passed away last year on Dec 25.
Prof Sahar Ansari, one of the three speakers present in the council’s Josh Malihabadi Library, said Farooqi sahib was an institution who was an expert in undertaking a variety of [literary] works in a masterful way. Although he had achievements in various genres of literature, even if he had focused on one of them, he still would have been a big name in the field. Giving this argument, Prof Ansari touched upon the late scholar’s great critical accomplishment Sher-i-Shor Angez. He argued it was important on two counts. One, it provided the reader with the understanding of the great poet Mir Taqi Mir’s poetry on the level of meaning (as is done at educational instituti
Now that more than a year has gone by since the pandemic disrupted our usual way of life, people have started to become acclimatised to online events, even finding them comforting as they become increasingly familiar. The 12th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) was enjoyed from the safety of one’s home, as intellectuals brought a nuanced debate to a world still grappling with the new normal.
Changing balances of power
In his keynote address, ‘The Future Frontiers’, Iranian-American scholar Vali Nasr spoke about the significant shifts in the global arena across technology, economics and foreign politics, and how countries need to function in this new environment.
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