KARACHI: A wide range of cuisine and specialities from Sindh that attract gourmets and connoisseurs alike, pickles and sweets, varieties of grains and vegetables, including some latest inventions, were put together at a daylong food festival held at the Arts Council on Friday.

The event was organised by the Indus Consortium and Oxfam.

It was not an event limited to just food but there were also theatre performances and tableaux to entertain visitors who arrived from across the city and other parts of Sindh.

While visitors were busy sampling some delicacies in the middle of a makeshift marketplace of several stalls, dozens of young students sitting on a raised platform were taking part in an art competition with songs blaring out of loudspeakers.

Sindh’s popular music band, Sketches, with lead singer Saif Samejo was there to perform.

Several varieties of wheat, including the inventions titled ‘Benazir’ and ‘Imdad’, were put on display at a stall of Wheat Institute, Sakrand.

Handicrafts by Thari women as well as by handicapped persons, besides artefacts were also there for the visitors to see. Then there were stalls of a variety of pickles, sweets and vegetables.

Published in Dawn, October 25th, 2014