Benyamin meticulously records the heartbeats, sounds, and echoes of a city that has become alien due to an artificially carried out partition. Blood-spilling explosions, an entrenched underworld that follows its own rules, dirty lanes, poor human beings – a city being transported to the middle ages through military rule, politics and religion. But, without losing hope, the city is opening out to a new era through resistance. The Karachi Book Festival, taking place uninterruptedly for five or six years, is one such ray of resistance…