The Lahore Literary Festival is set to host its second event in London today

The Lahore Literary Festival in London, a one-day program that is an offshoot of the LLF's main event in Lahore, kicks off today at the British Library in London.

Featuring a cross-section of Pakistani academics and writers, the festival spans topics that range from fiction and poetry to art and food.

Novelist Kamila Shamsie (the author of Home Fire, which was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize), author Mirza Waheed and author Tahmima Anam will speak during a panel discussion titled 'Never Forget', which will focus on Partition and the accounts of the inter-communal horror, displacement, and loss in 1947 that are still being uncovered. How should these stories be told?

Culinary expert Madhur Jaffrey will feature in a discussion titled 'In The Maze,' discussing food as a leitmotif of cultural exchange and identity, and the food bazaars and the kitchens of modern Pakistan and India.

A session called 'Pakistan at 70' will examine the trajectory the country is taking and its evolving internal and external challenges, and will feature Maleeha Lodhi (Pakistan's permanent representative to the U.N. and Pakistan's former High Commissioner to UK, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi (former Co-Chair of the Conservative Party), and authors Christina Lamb and Owen Bennett-Jones.

More details may be viewed here.