By JavEria Siddiqui

BURGERS, SHOCK AND ME!!!

Oh! It was shocking!!! Shocking to be at “FIFHT” Karachi Literature Festival (klf), shocking to see the crowd, actually I was shocked to see so many people attending klf …really??Is it a city of that much literate people??

Let it be, however the festival itself was so informative, sessions were really cool and the speakers… OMG! They were the masters of their fields. Seriously hats off to Oxford for organizing such an extra ordinary event in Karachi Pakistan considering the law and order situations.

As a nation we should be thankful to the guest speakers also who came all the way from other countries just for the festival, for literature, for the people of Pakistan. Knowing that there life is at stake what? Am I being rude? Accept it…its how it is in here.

Well the crowd there was sober and quiet, personally I belong to a middle class family and we middle class are very noisy people but the gentry at klf was not much talkative except for the speakers (they were forced to speak). Anyhow I guess they were elites (exceptions are always there like me) so they don’t make much noise, they just don’t have to make noise like us they get their rights without it (most of the times).

Crowd was calm even during the dance performances which were shocking again….how come if some group is dancing along with a “girl” and no one is hooting, no one doing bhangra or no CHICHORAPAN???

At times I was forced to think that these are the real Karachiites na?? These are the same people who mix biryani with zardah and haleem with jaleebi?? And to my great surprise they were the real Burgers not the usual “bun kababs”.