Gear up for Karachi Literature Festival 2012

Posted on February 9, 2012 by beenasarwar

Time for the Karachi Literature Festival again, for the third year running. Once more, it promises to be an exciting event, a real silver lining for the city. See updated programme at the KLF website. Here’s a preview by novelist Bina Shah – read it and salivate if you can’t attend. Video and photos from previous years are also online. Just to get you going – here’s a four-minute short documentary from last year’s event, by Mateela Films.


The 30-minute documentary is also at the British Council Pakistan‘s Vimeo site.

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Personal Political: Plays and books, not bombs

Posted on March 12, 2010 by beenasarwar

Pakistan's foremost sculptor Shahid Sajjad at the Retrospective exhibition at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Feb 2010

My monthly column for Hardnews, India, also published in The News on Sunday, (March 7, 2010)

Feb 25, 2010

Beena Sarwar

“New Karachi literary festival hopes to turn page on bombs,” trumpeted a headline in the Independent, UK.

Inspired by Jaipur, the festival in March “may not turn the page on the bombs,” as Siraj Khan, a Boston-based Pakistani commented in an email, “but it is very inspiring. In my recent 7-month stint in Karachi, I saw and felt this breath of fresh air myself. This has not happened overnight and it’s not just the new crop of writers who are turning the tide.” Continue reading →

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