ISLAMABAD: ‘When the river dries, our cultural imagination dries with it,’ remarked one of the speakers as a panel on Folk Literature and Climate Change session, which turned into an urgent call to reconnect language and land for survival on the third day of the Pakistan Mother Languages Festival 2026 held at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) on Sunday. The talk, moderated by Ghina Mehr, brought together poets, academics, activists and journalists who argued that the climate crisis is not merely an environmental or technical issue, but a cultural and civilisational one. : Speakers on the third day of the Pakistan Mother Languages Literature Festival 2026, held on Sunday, February 15, at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA ), Islamabad. — Muhammad Asim / White Star “In our folk tradition, the river, soil and land are not just a backdrop; they are the main protagonists,” Mehr said at the outset, asking whether climate change was only “a matter of files” or fundamentally “a matter of cultu...