KARACHI: Alliance Française (French Cultural Centre here) was the venue where 38, senior as well as budding, visual artists converged from all over Pakistan to display their œuvres, depicting Sevasadan or Bazaar-e-Husn, novel penned a century ago by Munshi Premchand (1880 – 1936).
Sevasadan/Bazaar-e-Husn proclaims that, despite passage of a hundred years , woman in 21st century is still struggling to decipher her place in the world. The book was first published in Hindi in 1919 from Calcutta and Urdu in 1924 from Lahore.
President, Alliance Française de Karachi, Mona Siddiqui, inaugurated the exposition, that was curated by Anwer Kashif and Sidra Sattar.
Consul General of France Monsieur Alexis Chahtahtinsky was conspicuous among the large number of art aficionados who visited the gallery.
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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career forty-five years ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.
