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City Life – Idiot’s Guide to a Relief Train and a Crane

Amusing. A relief train and a crane is an integral part of railway network which keeps it ticking. Let’s put aside sombre stories of increasingly dysfunctional and disintegrating trains and engines and learn a few things about relief train and crane. The combination is used in wake of a train accident to help stranded passengers […]

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City Culture – Halloween with Pillowman

Photo Credits: Dawn.com Fuckin’ Brilliant. Excuse my language here but The Pillowman was fuckin’ brilliant. Dark and Creepy. Comic and Horrifying. Pillowman unfolded it’s many flavours with near perfection. The Karachi walla always wanted to see a play close to the performers, without thick curtains and formal spaces in between. ‘Made for Stage’ understood the […]

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City Culture – Yousuf Art Gallery

The Art for middle class is dead. The Popular Culture is hitting a new low everyday. Few dare to prove it otherwise. Its nobility of biblical stature if one does it in Clifton Block 2. The block which has become a sewerage hole. Checkpoints around the block gifted by a democratic set-up has increased the […]

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City Culture – Experiencing Zambeel Dramatic Readings

Yousfi sb farmatai hain ke Ek waqt tha jab log darya ka zikr karte thai tu ‘paani ka darya’ kehte thaii ke kahin ‘aag’ ke darya se ibhaam na paida ho jai. Few decades forward, few would dare to read Quratul ain Haider, let alone ‘Aag ka Darya’. In a population with median age getting […]

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Flora and Fauna of the Urban Jungle – Act Two

[Photos by Zain]

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