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 Faith – Karachi’s largest Cross
Gora Qabrustan is a personal favorite. And now it is home to ...
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City Landmarks – Abbasi Kutub Khana
Abbasi Kutub Khana is the oldest bookshop in Karachi. It was founded in 1910 in Juna Market and is being run by Habib Hussain Abbasi, the maternal grandson of the founder of this bookstore. If paying homage to the oldest bookshop is not enough, meeting Habib sb is certainly rewarding enough to warrant a visit. […]
City Walk – Heritage Walk with PCCC
One of the things people reminisce the most about yesteryear Karachi is the luxury to walk its streets freely. It’s not just the mental block since some of us don’t have an option but to walk. The new localities in Karachi lack infrastructure such as footpaths, zebra crossings etc which make an area conducive for […]
City Shopping – Bohri Bazaar
A visit to Bohri Bazaar makes you wonder at larger potential and the possibilities that this bazaar boasts. It is perhaps Karachi’s answer to traditional grand bazaars of Isfahan and Istanbul or perhaps a more hybrid ones like Istiqlal in Istanbul or Nizami street in Baku. Or it perhaps is a unique setting. A brand […]
City Hangouts – Cafe Darakhshan
Karachi is a city of migrants. They have been migrating here since British invested in a modern port, some even before that. These migrants made their mark in different professions and help build modern Karachi. Zoroastrians and farmers from Yazd have been settling in subcontinent for centuries. While a lot of them headed for Mumbai, […]
City Landmarks – Street School of Bagri Katchi Abadi
Bagri is a nomadic community mostly present in Sindh. If you drive through national highway around harvest time you may find their mobile settlements around farms . Their ancestors roamed the vast stretches of subcontinent in search of livelihood, never settling at one place. There were other such communities in subcontinent too, in much larger […]
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City Landmarks – Goan Association Hall
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City Secret – Polish Connection
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City Landmarks – Aram Bagh
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City Life – Cycling with Critical Mass
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City Portraits – Humaira Bachal – The light of Moach Goth, Karachi.
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City Landmarks – Abbasi Kutub Khana
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City Walk – Heritage Walk with PCCC
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City Shopping – Bohri Bazaar
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City Hangouts – Cafe Darakhshan
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City Landmarks – Street School of Bagri Katchi Abadi
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Afshan: Wonderful blog!
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S.cheema: Loved the post.... i'm new to this beautiful city and have found to my dismay that if i want to…
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Wasiq Khan: Thank you Karachiwalla. Great piece. Inspiring to see that Karachi has a community of people interested in urban renewal,…
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Lalit doshi: After seeing photographs of swami naryenen mandir I glad some old structure has been demolished nank temple improved…
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