I enjoyed listening to the speakers so much. Even though, the speakers had an accent but I was able to understand them very well because I have a passion of watching movies in different language. The Japanese author who I thought couldn’t speak a word of English, I was surprise o hear when he spoke English even though his English was very limited but I liked it that he made an effort to speak in English. Nadeem Aslam, who talked about the politics in Pakistan to London to get away from it all. I Pakistan if you take any kind of action towards the government or any digging around or even talk about what the government don’t wan you to talk about, that person would get killed. I liked it when he talked about the word “Jihad” to us, we only know that word as one meaning, “terrorism group”, I, myself thought that everyone else I know knows that but when he explained that word to us, it reminded me how one word can have more than one meaning. I liked it that he has so much courage to talk about these issues that can reflect on other people lives.
The Scottish writer, I liked it how energized he was even though he used profanity while talking but that’s how he let his emotions out. I personally liked it a lot because he was speaking freely and a lot of writers wouldn’t speak the way he did.
The writer from Guatemala that was interesting too even though I haven’t lost Hindi completely but I was able to relate to him in some sense because even though I can speak Hindi, read Hindi to some extent but I have lost the writing structure completely and each day I realize that my vocabulary in Hindi is very low than my sisters, I came to America at very young age than my sisters.