INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In times of utter disorder between India and Pakistan, Nadeem Farooq Paracha fresh release ‘Points of Entry: Encounters at the
Origin-Sites of Pakistan&, comes as a chance for the youth across the border to comprehend the resemblances as well as the muchable
differences between the two nations.During his book launch at Karachi Literature Festival tenth edition, the acclaimed journalist in a
session moderated by Pakistani-American journalist George Fulton, shed light on his latest published work that explores the Pakistani
identity in its realest spirit as he demonstrates the diverse components of the country culture that paint an absolute picture of what it
truly means to be Pakistani.&In Pakistan since the past many years we&ve tried to build a very singular identity and we have failed
That hasn&t been fair to all kinds of people who live in this country and make this country
This book is about them,& he stated as KLF entered its moment day.
The culture critic goes on to define what it means to be a
Pakistani: &Pakistan is much just a monolithic person with just one language or one sense of politics, we&re much one dimensional
There are so many differences, we see it in our food, our music which makes us Pakistanis and that is what I wanted to celebrate and get
across.&Speaking about his book coming as a channel between Pakistan and the youth of India that gets a tainted image of their neighboring
nation, Paracha states: &They say that young Indians have a very one-dimensional idea about what a Pakistani is
Of course I understood that, much only the Indian media but the Western media as well, they&ve got a very unidimensional idea of Pakistani
This was written for the Indian youth to understand that there are a lot of similarities between us and then are degree differences as well
and they need to understand that instead of influencing them through war or through propaganda.&In the wake of the current crisis that
amplified the strains between the two countries, he asserted that an average Pakistani was more worried about much being able to watch Gully
Boy on a big screen while the most liberal media across the border had been bought into the narrative getting sold by their government:
&This was this starvation in Indian society I realized five six years ago
When they elected Modi with such a huge mandate obviously they were looking for measurething which was different to what was in India before
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