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Manto Festival continues to enthral audience

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LAHORE: The Manto Festival at Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall, continued to attract theatre enthusiasts on the second consecutive day of the event on Wednesday. Azad Theatre presented its play ‘Dafa 292’ based on three short stories of Saadat Hassan Manto: Dhuwan, Thanda Gosht and Kali Shalwar. The play portrayed how Manto was an outstanding […]


Manto Festival lacks festive mood

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LAHORE: The four-day Manto Festival organised by the Lahore Arts Council began at the Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall, here on Monday, but without having any festive feel about it. Though the event has been labelled as ‘festival’ on prolific writer Saddat Husain Manto, the council seems to have completely ignored the ‘festive’ element as […]