Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) ’21’s virtual edition concludes Sunday (today) with a number of sessions with the literary luminaries of the world, to be webcast live on Facebook. The sessions include Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World — a conversation with journalist and host of CNN GPS Fareed Zakaria and Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Maleeha Lodhi; The Past is Another Country, Ahmed Rashid, author of the bestseller Taliban, in conversation with Amin Maalouf, author of Samarkand and The Rock of Tanios, with an introduction by the Ambassador of France to Pakistan HE Marc Baréty; Combating Stigmas: Women Writing Their Own Stories in Pakistani Drama, with Sindhi playwright Noorul Huda Shah and Bee Gul, the award winning writer who has recently adapted Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things for screen, titled Talkhiyan; and On Multiple Belongings, with author and journalist Maha Khan-Philips and the bestselling writer of The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak.

Khattati by Muskan Siraj, a day-long free online workshop, shall be held on February 27. Timing: 7pm-8pm.

This is being advertised as an “introductory workshop” where the participants will learn the basic techniques of calligraphy such as colour mixing, composition, qalam and brush technique, and complex modern calligraphy.

Free Art Classes for all continue on Sundays at the House of NANNAs. Safety SOPs are followed. Those interested may bring their own lunch. Boards and benches shall be provided.