The George Town Literary Festival returns with a capital edge


Intellectual: Look out for Kassim Ahmad’s lecture on Malay mythology at the George Town Literary Fest. – File pic

Festival curator Umapagan Ampikaipakan talks about the importance of reading, the need for discourse and all things literary.

IF there is one thing that we Malaysians are doing less, it is reading. This noble habit seems to be dangerously declining over the years. We are just not reading enough.

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