Balcony Watch. A frivolous activity in a world running at a maddening pace. Karachi Walla has ostrich like behavior in face of reality therefore falls for these balconies time and again. Who lives there? Why don’t they care? I feel like climbing the stairs and plea the residents. These balconies are dying a slow painful death. A writer once said that our vocabulary of sophisticated words gets depleted as the society turns materialistic. Then everything gets measured by soulless numbers. The sophisticated vocabulary and balconies both have no chance in such society.
All of these pictures are clicked in Saddar. The architects and masons of these balconies have disappeared but not before leaving their mark on Karachi landscape. Through the balconies. How do you plan to leave your mark?
Oh, this is something i do all the time, especially when passing through Saddar . Recently life carried me to Bolton Market and there i was, gazing at the balconies again. I always imagine the lives of the original occupants of these homes and balconies.
oh and gurumandir has its own sets of nice balconies if you pass through the lanes there. Sadly, all those old houses/mansions are being demolished now and apartment blocks are being constructed in their place.