Hamari Kahani Kon Likhay Ga: The Next Generation of Storytellers and the Modern Human Condition

If mother tongues cease to exist, who will write the story of the children of the soil?

Can foreign languages ever truly recognize the pain of the native people? Can they ever feel the hunger behind the pehli roti, the ache of migration, the love of the mother tongue?

The entire world is writing its story in its own language. Where does Punjab stand in this?

Join us for a conversation around “Pehli Roti” – Ali Usman Bajwa’s collection of Punjabi stories – and the next generation of storytellers who are asking the hardest question of our time: In the age of the modern human condition, who will write our story, and in which language?

About the Panelists:

• Ali Usman Bajwa
  (Author, Fiction Writer and Filmmaker)
• Malik Maher Ali
  (Writer and Translator)
• Sukirat Singh Anand
  (Indian Writer, Journalist, Translator and Broadcaster)
• Tariq Bhatti
  (Writer, Cultural Critic and Punjabi Activist)

This session is free and open to all. Simply visit the venue to attend it.

The Black Hole
Plot 5H, Street 100, G-11/3, Islamabad.
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