tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post1845653429293101286..comments2023-09-17T12:31:42.456+05:00Comments on Thinking: Who kidnapped Karachi Literature Festival?Thinkinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-4460071082438702292011-02-11T01:07:09.086+05:002011-02-11T01:07:09.086+05:00Stranger
hmmm...what a lovely picture you showed...<b> Stranger </b><br /><br />hmmm...what a lovely picture you showed us of the childhood and what lovely story it was...<br /><br />hmmm....and what you said about the Literature gathering...is so true....<br /><br />Thanks alot for coming. I am honored.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-1197263769378224242011-02-10T12:28:13.283+05:002011-02-10T12:28:13.283+05:00Literature festival and the exhibition attached to...Literature festival and the exhibition attached to it, is like a buffet which provides opportunity to all to pick up delicious food but normally, highly garnished stuff is picked up first while the “tastiest” awaits “someone really hungry” who could take a bite and say, “why didn’t I had it first”.<br /><br />These few lines struck my inner strings :- <br /><br />“I remember…when I was a little girl…I used to buy small story books of almost ten to fifteen pages with weird pictures on the cover………… I used to buy it from my pocket money…”<br /><br />I too picked up a Russian book when I was in class 6th from a Fair which was picturesque. It was about a girl who lost her gold ring during rain under a Cedar tree while returning home from a Jungle. She goes to the same place during spring with her Grandpa and starts removing tree-leaves which were fallen over the ring. Finally she gets it. <br /><br />Anyway, I wish, the misty world so beautifully projected by all writers from time to time, could become a reality one day.A.G.Krishnanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15801930715895397684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-41080959806274858662011-02-09T23:10:29.929+05:002011-02-09T23:10:29.929+05:00"..the event was sponsored by British Council..."..the event was sponsored by British Council and surprisingly co-sponsored by US Consulate; shamefully they are sponsoring social events like this in hotels and killing people in streets..."<br /><br />Wow, I didn't know HOW serious and problematic this was - but you have really opened up my eyes. This is wrong - all wrong - and so so counter-productive for good relationships all the way around.<br /><br />Some of you may want to see the very lengthy collection of notes I've placed together on<br />No More Crusades blog...<br /><br />Apologies to several here for not only it's length but also it's use of some folks works who I'd like to identify yet wisdom says not now...so plz understand...<br /><br />Also, I'm seeking to pull that whole subject of the misidentified contractor away from the issue of Aafia and hoping beyond hope perhaps that someone in the US will stop coverage of Egypt long enough to give it the attention it sorely needs.<br /><br />Plz let me know - perhaps via my email - what you suggest we need to change or add?<br /><br />For now, plz once again use:<br /><br />oneheartforpeace@gmail.com<br /><br />In unity and heart with each of you...CNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10877484524704475807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-5758223643726993672011-02-09T20:43:12.093+05:002011-02-09T20:43:12.093+05:00Talha
Thanks for taking out time.
I am honroed....<b> Talha </b><br /><br />Thanks for taking out time.<br /><br />I am honroed.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-27240480676275455572011-02-09T20:42:06.716+05:002011-02-09T20:42:06.716+05:00Dear Harman
Thanks for liking the post. I am ho...<b> Dear Harman </b><br /><br /><br />Thanks for liking the post. I am honored.<br /><br />I hope we could change the way of the world...its ometimes....so.....hmm....bizare...Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-7105127658079293892011-02-09T20:39:57.564+05:002011-02-09T20:39:57.564+05:00hmm....
Dar Sahib
Thanks alot.
Actually...the...hmm....<br /><br /><b> Dar Sahib </b><br /><br />Thanks alot.<br /><br />Actually...the reason behind...the motive of KLF was bridge the gap...<br /><br />To get get close...<br /><br />To know eachother and to talk about eachother...<br /><br />It could be the best step to bring the two classes on one spot...so that they can know about each other...<br /><br />But somehow...the whole event was kidnap by the elite class...and mass couldn't even get a glimpse of the festival...<br /><br />No body cares too...as mass is so much busy in earning the ROOTI nowadays its easy to take away these kind of events under their nose....<br /><br />hmmm....I am glad that you looked at the festival the way a rational person should see it....<br /><br />hmm...we too gossip lot about US consulate...what a dare step...to brush/bush off....Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-57259776225548645822011-02-09T20:30:24.451+05:002011-02-09T20:30:24.451+05:00Dear Peerless
Thanks for coming. I know...these ...<b> Dear Peerless </b><br /><br />Thanks for coming. I know...these gathering should not be named as Literature Festival...<br /><br />hmmm....thats what made me feel bad too...that when KLF was first originated its main reason was to bridge the gap...but now they have plans to invite authors from other countries without even having a second thought on what they have done to close the departed classes here....<br /><br />I am honored that you came.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-55993700453268491252011-02-09T20:26:00.529+05:002011-02-09T20:26:00.529+05:00Qayoom Sahib
hmm....thanks for such to the point...<b> Qayoom Sahib </b><br /><br />hmm....thanks for such to the point poem....<br /><br />You are very good in selection too....<br /><br />"And then return back home to Homer’s Daughter"<br /><br />That's what may be the only thing left for masses now....<br /><br />I am honored that you take out time for my post.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-29130624630367961482011-02-09T20:22:52.559+05:002011-02-09T20:22:52.559+05:00Ph_
Thanks alot Ph_.
I am honored that you take...<b> Ph_ </b><br /><br />Thanks alot Ph_.<br /><br />I am honored that you take out time for my blog.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-58755449493032500392011-02-09T20:22:03.172+05:002011-02-09T20:22:03.172+05:00Akhtar
Thank you so much.
I didn't mind you...<b> Akhtar </b><br /><br />Thank you so much.<br /><br />I didn't mind your copying my post to the other website...but I will be greatful if you just let me know next time (if you like to copy) by email before you do that...<br /><br />Thanks...I really do like the way someone put up with Bina Shah...<br /><br />hmm...thanks for giving me honor.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-70327083250634390922011-02-09T20:14:21.699+05:002011-02-09T20:14:21.699+05:00Anonymous
Thanks for coming...hye...its the free...<b> Anonymous </b><br /><br />Thanks for coming...hye...its the freedom of speech I am practising here...remember?Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-39324980996068874442011-02-09T20:11:32.751+05:002011-02-09T20:11:32.751+05:00Dear Connie
Thanks alot for coming.
Well you sa...<b> Dear Connie </b><br /><br />Thanks alot for coming.<br /><br />Well you said it right...Granta also...didn't represent Pakistan....<br /><br />Waiting for your full participation...<br /><br />Thanks for coming...I am honored.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-78445457460084305152011-02-09T20:08:32.706+05:002011-02-09T20:08:32.706+05:00A Great Liar
Thanks for coming.
And yes...you a...<b> A Great Liar </b><br /><br />Thanks for coming.<br /><br />And yes...you are right about the writers and their way of getting the share...<br /><br />That's what I think...they are just striving for their share....<br /><br />I am honored that you came.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-58362750880602665542011-02-09T20:05:17.558+05:002011-02-09T20:05:17.558+05:00rIZ
Thanks for coming. Please don't ever trus...<b>rIZ</b><br /><br />Thanks for coming. Please don't ever trust your assumptions...you must see and check to prove your assumption....<br /><br />hmm...may be next year !Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-74643459508296740782011-02-09T20:03:05.260+05:002011-02-09T20:03:05.260+05:00Dear Urooj
Thanks for your views. Well I can'...<b> Dear Urooj </b><br /><br />Thanks for your views. Well I can't say that you didn't miss anything...ofcourse you missed me...because I was there too....lol....<br /><br />And yes thats what makes me feel bad because all the pannelists and writers were talking about the BRIDGE between elite and common men...<br /><br />Also...it hurts when I heard writers praising their own contemporary writers and didn't mentioned even a single writers from past.<br /><br />Thanks for coming. I am honored.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-1063839306876196172011-02-09T19:58:49.323+05:002011-02-09T19:58:49.323+05:00Irfan Sahib
hmmm....Indian Movies and Indian son...<b> Irfan Sahib </b><br /><br />hmmm....Indian Movies and Indian songs are famous here as well and I do sometimes enjoy them alot.<br /><br />I guess both India and Pakistan even after partition have same liking and same disliking...<br /><br />You know what makes MUNNI so famous here too...because she acted as a common person...the extras with her was also common people...<br /><br />hmm...Thank you so much for coming.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-39267237953270529842011-02-09T19:55:16.545+05:002011-02-09T19:55:16.545+05:00Dear Asma Khan
Thanks for coming. Internet does ...<b> Dear Asma Khan </b><br /><br />Thanks for coming. Internet does not replace anything...its just an addition to our daily life routine....<br /><br />What replaced books is this DIVIDE...which makes one wonder what to choose....its become difficult for common to choose what elite's like and elite don't like to choose what masses like...<br /><br />Now....buying a book is a kind of luxury...plus who would read something which does not represent him/her....<br /><br />hmmm....thanks anyways.Thinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12803582964869804576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-55585283128873287792011-02-09T12:43:27.812+05:002011-02-09T12:43:27.812+05:00Well I just can't deny that I agree 100% with...Well I just can't deny that I agree 100% with Mr Akhtar Wasim Dar.<br /><br />When these type of literary activities are hijacked by British Council and US Consulate results ought to be disastrous.Sharihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09061475839923643804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-46492199944615720292011-02-09T11:11:49.559+05:002011-02-09T11:11:49.559+05:00To add to Peerless comment, the event was sponsore...To add to Peerless comment, the event was sponsored by British Council and surprisingly co-sponsored by US Consulate; shamefully they are sponsoring social events like this in hotels and killing people in streets.Akhtar Wasim Darhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09635876866214567866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-42232767872567341202011-02-09T04:29:43.161+05:002011-02-09T04:29:43.161+05:00nice..very well written, loved your post!
keep up ...nice..very well written, loved your post!<br />keep up the good writing..A slap for those who think themselves to be on pedestals and gaining strength by snatching from commons...<br />its all propaganda by Media..BS of all kind..hamaarethoughts.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13355838190699373168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-49142354097362013852011-02-08T22:55:50.426+05:002011-02-08T22:55:50.426+05:00Unfortunately like everything Literature is also n...Unfortunately like everything Literature is also now stand divided into segments and camps. All the writers and intellectuals who appeared at KLF belonged to one such division. It would have been appropriate if writers across the spectrum were selected so a wholesome representation was showcased. <br /><br />I fully agree when you say that literature should represent people but you must accept that the literature that they were representing were representing for the elitist. So they were the writers, they were the readers and they were the listeners. They represent the small minority and had that same minority their audience. <br /><br />KLF was a social event for all those who consider literature as a fashion and not as a way of life. And the literature that they are reading can never become a way of life. A literature that doesn't come from the basic source of life, the day to day living, is just a ornamental decoration and cannot be called literature, literature has to come from the soil, the sweat, the twinkle in the eyes of those dreamers who walk on their fields with shoulder to shoulder with their brothers and tell not their own stories but dreams and aspirations of those multitudes who are not just others or ordinary people but their companions, member of a big family called community, nation and humanity.<br /><br />The KLF was not a bad show it was a fine event for elitists, with educated panelists and audience, it was just wrongly titled as Karachi Literature Festival an appropriate name would have been Karachi Literates Festival. (Here literates signify people who have been educated abroad or only in English medium schools)Akhtar Wasim Darhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09635876866214567866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-61303542564959998402011-02-08T21:38:07.442+05:002011-02-08T21:38:07.442+05:00It was not a literature festival instead a Britain...It was not a literature festival instead a Britain sponsored political gathering which included many foreign participants discussing terrorism, sufi-ism etc, extremism. Out of over 70 participants few notable writers and intellectuals were Fehmeeda Riaz, Iftikhar Arif, Zehra Nigah Zahida Hina and Kishwar Naheed. I am strongly in favor of these interactions but these political gathering should not be named as literature festivals etc.Shahid Majeedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04930952272257574606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-36263303906582354562011-02-08T16:43:57.994+05:002011-02-08T16:43:57.994+05:00Society Meeting
To brandish all the signs of gen...<b>Society Meeting</b><br /><br /><br />To brandish all the signs of genius<br />To bear the marks of disability<br />To read the myth of Mighty Peleus<br />With such diminished visibility<br />Are not the signs of High Society<br />Nor will they bring in any money now<br /><br />Can this be life when all I do is read?<br />And go out once a while unheard, unseen<br />Alone and unaccompanied – I plead<br />To be let in the group, I have not been<br />Involved in anything like this: 15<br />Poets all discussing poetry<br /><br />“Oh Yes” “Of Course” and that dull “Sure, why not?”<br />“Well, you know, when he published <i>Don Juan</i>”<br />“It all went down so badly and he got”<br />“Some very bitter reviews” “And … well … one can<br />Either take things badly” “But not Byron”<br />He made the most of it, he fobbed them off.<br /><br />Go on you dullards mocking: ones who make<br />The money from these meetings, those who eat<br />The cakes and all the pies and also take<br />The freebies to be had from such a meet<br />Let me alone now with my bread and water<br />And then return back home to <i>Homer’s Daughter</i><br /><br /><br />© Rehan Qayoom, 16v July 2006.Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-11273311729519073792011-02-08T09:19:39.611+05:002011-02-08T09:19:39.611+05:00Very thoughtful!Very thoughtful!Ph_https://www.blogger.com/profile/08057387087425836378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8155522671293724174.post-44771854165491157592011-02-08T03:09:54.503+05:002011-02-08T03:09:54.503+05:00“I’ve been in a rickshaw”: Some critical reflectio...“I’ve been in a rickshaw”: Some critical reflections on the Karachi Literature Festival 2011<br /><br />http://criticalppp.com/archives/39241Akhtarhttp://criticalppp.com/noreply@blogger.com