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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. ....
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Last week the federal government, as well as the governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, issued identical directives applicable to all public and private schools from the next academic year as regards teaching in grades one to five. Directives that will regulate teaching in the higher grades are expected soon enough. These directives require all schools to teach from textbooks prescribed by the state as model textbooks. Other textbooks that realize the objectives of the Single National Curriculum (SNC) may be used only after approval by the designated government authorities. While the model textbooks are meant to lay down minimum learning outcomes that individual schools may exceed, the fact is that no other textbooks stand approved as of now. ....
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