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Vikram Seth @ KLF 2011
Vikram Seth is an acclaimed Indian poet, novelist and travel writer. He has published six volumes of poetry and is the author of three novels: The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy, and An Equal Music. His most recent work The Rivered Earth is a collection of four libretti written to accompany music by composer Alec
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Shobhaa Dé @ KLF 2011
Shobhaa Dé is one of India’s best-selling authors. All her seventeen books have topped the charts and created records. Four of her titles are course material at the University of London. Her work features extensively in Comparative Literature courses at Universities abroad and within India. Considered something of a literary phenomenon, over a hundred dissertations
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Mohsin Hamid @ KLF 2011
Mohsin Hamid is a novelist best known for his second novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which explored contemporary identity issues and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and is presently being made into a movie. His earlier Moth Smoke exposed the decadence of the elite of Lahore. He also contributes op-ed articles to the daily
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Salman Ahmad @ KLF 2011
Salman Ahmad is a popular musician and United Nations goodwill ambassador. One of the founders of the seminal Pakistani Rock music band Vital Signs, he later formed and led the band Junoon, perhaps South Asia’s most celebrated popular music band. He popularized a fusion of Rock music with Islamic music that has been called “Sufi
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Maniza Naqvi @ KLF 2011
Maniza Naqvi is a novelist and short story writer. Born in Lahore, she considers Karachi to be her real home albeit mostly living, in her own words, “in a suitcase.” Her four novels are Mass Transit, On Air, Stay With Me, and A Matter of Detail. She has also published a book of short stories
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H M Naqvi @ KLF 2011
H.M. Naqvi is the award-winning, Karachi-based author of Home Boy. Translated into German, Italian and Portuguese, Home Boy won the 2011 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Naqvi has worked in the financial services industry, run a slam venue, and taught creative writing at Boston University. He recently participated at
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Bina Shah @ KLF 2011
Bina Shah is a Karachi-based journalist and fiction writer and teacher. She is the author of two short story collections, Animal Medicine and Blessings, and four novels: Where They Dream in Blue, The 786 Cyber Cafe, Slum Child, and A Season For Martyrs. Her work has been translated into Urdu, Spanish, and Italian. She has
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Interview: Fazeelat Aslam
It’s shortly after 9 o’clock on a Monday night and I’m sitting on a couch across from Fazeelat Aslam, the young documentary filmmaker, journalist and co-producer of the Oscar-winning documentary short ‘Saving Face,’ and I have to admit, I couldn’t be more impressed. Astute, incisive and remarkably articulate are just a few adjectives that come
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Comic Relief
They say laughter is the best medicine, and no one needs that medicine more these days than the people of Pakistan. At a time when chaos prevails somewhat like a bad habit and luxuries like entertainment is harder on the pocket than it ideally should be, the only solution we’re left with is to kindle
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Veena Uncensored
I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: Veena Malik is my hero. And why wouldn’t she be? She’s bold, she’s beautiful, and she’s unapologetically honest, which is more than what I can say for anyone else in the contending. In just a few short years, this fiery young woman has evidenced her worth