Had I been Sara Teasdale, I would have said, "Life has loveliness to sell, ...Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace, Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be." But I'm just an ordinary person, a romantic and an idealist. People have called me 'philomath' and 'a discerning sage', mocking my insatiable curiosity or perhaps due to my built-up faith in humanity.

Is it my fault? I mean, what do you do when you live in Lahore and it's February? You just warmed up with Think Fest a few days ago. There's this marathon – Lahore Literary Festival, Heritage Exchange Conference, Faiz Festival, ArtBeat, Lahore International Book Fair, Basant and Daatchi Festival, all falling back-to-back amid art shows: Eternal Imprints, Common Sky, Tidal Paths, Thread by Thread, An Eye for the Familiar and the Exquisite, EarthTalks, Iqbal Hussain's references. And the list goes on. Aren't we lucky to be living in these times? The festive........

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