A newly planted Austen society
Like a Janeite version of Johnny Appleseed, the British-Pakistani journalist and writer Laaleen Sukhera seems to be making a habit of founding Jane Austen societies across the globe. Eight years ago, there was the Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP), whose signature project was Austenistan, a collection of short stories updating Austen’s plots to contemporary Pakistan. And now Sukhera has joined forces with a Janeite friend to launch the Jane Austen Society of the Emirates