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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