15 memorable quotes from this year's Lahore Literary Festival
This year's Lahore Literary Festival came to a close on Sunday evening and it's been a whirlwind three days.
While we can't say that every session was as stimulating as we hoped, there were many times when speakers inspired us, amused us or just had us nodding vigorously in agreement.
Here are all the times when we reached for our notepads:
When Afshin Shahi decided to highlight the plight of mental health globally
During his session on populism and the future of global democracy with historians Ayesha Jalal and Eugene Rogan, lecturer Dr Afshin Shahi spoke about objective vs subjective violence: “Objectively, suicide killed more people in 2018 than terrorism. Why are we still talking about terrorism when the biggest security threat to humanity in 2018 was poor mental health?”
Shahi also said this one-liner that stuck with us: "History is more about collective forgetfulness than collective memory."