February 28, 2021
The virtual edition of the Lahore Literary Festival ’21, which concluded recently, had historians, fiction writers, poets,essayists, political analysts and artists come together “to unearth the past… in order to know the world better”
To judge from the way that people write about it, the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) remains as great a theatre as Richard Wagner’s operas. It is not only the writers who are to blame: the public has an insatiable appetite for stories, gossip, food, and entertainment, generally catered for at the Alhamra on the Mall. Yet, the collective view of literature festivals across the country has become an increasingly lazy stereotype.