The Karachi Walla

The Karachi Walla was looking for the abandoned reading room in Jehangir Park. Unfortunately we found it closed and started walking back to the car. There on my left I saw a small opening into a stone structure. Turned out that it was back entrance to the Edulji Dinshaw Dispensary. I have documented the dispensary […]

The Nameless Coconut Shop. The one with coconuts hanging from the top. A reminder that Karachi is a tropical city by the sea. The shop which is near Burns Garden has been selling coconuts for more than 50 years. They only sells coconuts, something of an anomaly in present day Karachi where packaged food has […]

The bookshop at the unlikeliest of places. City Press Bookshop is located on the third floor of Madina Shopping Mall, famous for rejected pieces of famous designer wear. If it still does not ring the bell, think Zainab Market. This area has seen many bookshops giving way to all sorts of shops, from furniture to […]

Talk about heritage buildings and the history attached to them and very few buildings in Karachi could boast as decorated a history as Broadcasting House of Radio Pakistan. What exactly is it used for now? well literally biting the dust. Preserving heritage buildings has never been our strong point but one could argue that perhaps […]

“The building’s shape is a riddle. We will see if you can figure it out at the end” Driving towards Nasheman Cinema on a bright sunny day in April, our last expedition to find the Crown Cinema had ended in shock and disappointment when we found debris where once the façade stood, a sense of […]