Bazaar city and South Asian life. A number of bazaar districts have been listed as World Heritage sites due to their historical and/or architectural significance. Visiting a bazaar or souq has also become a popular tourist pastime. The origin of the word "bazaar" comes from Persian "bāzār". from Middle Persian "wāzār", from Old Persian "vāčar", from Proto-Indo-Iranian "*wahā-čarana". The term, bazaar, spread from Persia into Arabia and ultimately throughout the Middle East. In North America, the United Kingdom and some other European countries, the term can be used as a synonym for a "rummage sale", to describe charity fundraising events held
Bazaar-e-Husn Bazaar-e-Husn Bazaar-e-Husn () or Seva Sadan () is a Hindustani novel by Munshi Premchand. It was originally written in Urdu under the title "Bazaar-e-Husn" ("Market of Beauty" or Red-light district) but was first published in Hindi from Calcutta as "Seva Sadan" ("The House of Service"), in 1919. It was published in Urdu, in 1924, from Lahore. "Bazaar-e-Husn" was Premchand's first major novel; before it, he had published four novellas in Urdu of about 100 pages each. K. Subramaniam adapted the novel as a Tamil movie, "Sevasadanam" (1938), which was the first film for the famous Carnatic music singer, M. S.