Join us at T2F for readings and commentary from works of literature, history and hagiography which deal with critical ideas and events that have come to haunt Pakistan.
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Manto Censored by the Sindh Textbook Board
Thursday, 27th October, 2011 | 7:00 pm
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The first session of the series features readings of the expunged portions of Manto’s story, “Naya Qanoon”, and thoughts on its inclusion in the Urdu textbook for Class 12. Censorship is the harshest form of criticism. In this reading, we will attempt to understand the minds of the textbook editors who thought it fit to delete certain portions of Manto’s story that were considered offensive and dangerous.
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Caste in Urdu Prose Literature
Thursday, 3rd November, 2011 | 7:00 pm
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The second session of the series features readings of passages from Tilism-e Hoshruba, Alif Laila and other Urdu books with a caste bias. This selection of passages from Tilism-e Hosruba, put to writing by Mohammad Hussain Jah in the early twentieth century, Alif Laila, ‘free-translated’ by Pundit Ratan Nath Sarshar, and some later writings will explore caste politics in Urdu literature and recent societal changes.
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Jihadi Politics: Yesterday and Today
Thursday, 10th November, 2011 | 7:00 pm
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The final session of the series is a presentation on how the concept of Jihad has grown to become what it is today.
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Ajmal Kamal edits a quarterly Urdu literary journal “aaj” from
Karachi, and runs a small publishing house and bookshops.
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