The Karachi Walla

Thick beard. Sharp gaze. Smiling face. He was friendlier than what I thought. Muhammad Saleem is a trained teacher and has under his belt more than 15 years of experience. But this is not the most exciting part of his story. He has grown up in Lyari studying in a school where English was taught […]

Photos from Bina Shah Fan Page on Facebook and Text by The Karachi Walla One fine evening The Karachi Walla was passing by the Liberty Books branch near BBQ tonight and saw an enticing invitation to attend a reading session by Bina Shah. Obviously it was for free but there is always a moral pressure […]

Surreal. There is something with this setting which makes it surreal. The street in question is just another street at Regal Chowk, full of saddar-esque trash, dirt and overflowing sewerage water. There are shops selling everything from a transistor to the promise of a lustful life. There is not anything spectacular about this street. It […]

Aao faiz de geet sunaiye, Sohne faiz de lafz duhraiye, O Sindhi, Balochi, Punjabi, Pathan, Saare mil ke jashn manaiye. And boy did they come. There must have been concerns over participation by masses but it proved baseless. People flocked in numbers bringing their children along to what became an ideal family outing. CFD could […]

Mystifying. You can’t take your eyes off it. There is something about Sevakunj hostel which makes you curious. It inspires imagination. The curious and liberal spirit puts up the scene when Dawood College students lived here. The hostel provided inexpensive shelter to students from interior Sindh and beyond. They spent their evenings in the reading […]