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The Hyderabad Literature Festival featured a gamut of 40 sessions on diverse topics, encompassing literature, poetry, novel, film and other issues.

Īnother poet, Khalil Kunbhar, said that compassion and empathy and associating oneself with the prevailing travails of an era help produce depth in poetry. “Although we did borrow ideas from predecessors and contemporary poets, we also had our own and which we created.”īaghi read one of his famous couplets: Gulan je mausam kaliyoon na aandiyoon, bahar aanda putan ja lasha. “Our poetry was inspired by these feelings,” he said. That time of the year: Lok Virsa all set to host literature festivalĪt a separate session, Haleem Baghi, an elderly notable poet, lamented that contemporary poets are shorn of sensibility and depth of thought. Tribute was also paid to writers Agha Saleem and Momin Bullo, who died this year, at the event. “The long boot hasn’t closed any schools or hospitals ,” he said, apparently alluding to the military. He went on to blame Sindhi writers of the last few decades for indulging in attrition against their peers instead of engaging in constructive criticism.Īccording to Jalil, similar has been the case with the deteriorating healthcare and education in Sindh. “We need to provide healthy activities to the people to drive them away from the menacing extremist tendencies,” he said.Ĭhildren’s Literature Festival to offer food for thought this weekend Nonetheless, he expressed hope for a revival if activities like this festival can be frequently organised in the entire province. He likened the existing quality of literary works with ‘stagnant water’.

Responding to the moderator’s query on comparing Sindhi literature of the 1960s and 1970s with the one in the present era, Jalil said, “I feel appalled and sad”. The festival kicked off with a discussion with scholar Amar Jalil conducted by Dr Arfana Mallah, a Sindh University teacher and rights activist.