What I saw during Ramazan. A collection of photos and videos from Karachi Walla’s daily trips to Karachi’s old quarters during Ramazan.
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City Landmarks – St. Andrews
St. Andrews takes your breath away. An oasis among the urban jungle ...
City Landmarks – The Eduljee Dinshaw Charitable Dispensary (Addendum)
The Karachi Walla was looking for the abandoned reading room in Jehangir ...
City Shopping – Antique Market in Saddar
A definite treasure trove. A walk down the memory lane. A refuge ...
City Landmarks – Karachi’s largest Cross
Gora Qabrustan is a personal favorite. And now it is home to ...
Symphony city – discovering Karachi’s oldest music shops
[originally published at Dawn.com] Karachi has a distinct soul. While the thriving ...
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City Culture – Karachi Awami Pipe & Brass Band, KMC Market Garden
Karachi’s broken hearts. Karachi Awami Pipe & Brass Band is a group of eight, most of them approaching 50s. They followed different trajectories before ending up in a small office in KMC Marekt in Garden. Some of them have worked in Punjab before moving to Karachi. Another one has recently joined from Hyderabad. One of […]
City Life – Buying Green at Paper Market
Paper Market is a fantastic place. The market gets a different makeover throughout the year as we progress from one festival to another. Independence day is perhaps the busiest festival for the retailers at Paper Market. I entered the market from Shahrah-e-Liaquat. It was Sunday and the busy thoroughfare was void of regular traffic. However […]
City Hangouts – The far side of Native Jetty
An instant favorite. One of the top places to observe people in Karachi. It could smell bad and some may find creek’s polluted water filthy. The other side of the creek is much cleaner belonging to clubs and hotels. They looked sad from where I stood. Authorities have put metal sheets on both sides of […]
Personal Spaces – Farrukh Naseem – Painter, Pakistan Chowk
Uber Talented. Watch out for Farrukh Naseem. He is going to go places with his craft. The Karachi Walla arranged to meet him at Pakistan Chowk, where we had met some months back for the first time. I was taking some people around and I noticed him along with other painters busy painting city life […]
City Nostalgia – Life of an Expat Student
Note: Thassim Akbar, A Sri Lankan student spent five years at NED from 1971 to 1976. Following is the second part of his experiences in the city. Read the first part here. As I wrote about my first year at NED after landing in Pakistan in February 1971. My time was spent between Studies and […]
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City Landmarks – Goan Association Hall
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City Secret – Polish Connection
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City Landmarks – The Mitharam Hostel
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City Landmarks – Aram Bagh
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City Life – Cycling with Critical Mass
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City Culture – Karachi Awami Pipe & Brass Band, KMC Market Garden
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City Life – Buying Green at Paper Market
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City Hangouts – The far side of Native Jetty
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Personal Spaces – Farrukh Naseem – Painter, Pakistan Chowk
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City Nostalgia – Life of an Expat Student
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