With 146 scheduled participants, including novelists, journalists, economists, educationalists, political analysts, artists and architects, it is clear that this year’s edition of the literary fest will be bigger than ever.
“To put it literally, we are all ‘blacks’ and carry the same ‘wool’ which ‘Sir’ always wants!” says artist Nida Bangash about her work on shared colonial experiences.
“Television preachers need to encourage research and debate on religious matters,” says Dr Khalid Zaheer, a religious scholar and the dean of the faculty of arts and social sciences at the University of Central Punjab.