Photos by Mohsin and Text by The Karachi Walla. Red bricks. Fallen leaves. Blossoming Amaltas. Rusting garden tools. Green hedges and winding ditches. Date palms pregnant with sweetest of dates. Disappearing paint on the canvas of a backyard wall. A secret window full of promises. Radiant bloom of evergreen bougainvillea. Cracking sound of jammed backyard […]
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Karachi Notebook – Land Reforms Teach-in
Some people like the idea. Some people don’t get the idea. Some people are willing to die for it. Some people are willing to kill for it. The idea of land reforms and Debt cancellation in this country is as old as the country itself. T2F is often being accused of attracting elites only. But […]
Karachi Landmarks – Greener Karachi Trust Farm
A lone warrior. An anomaly. Almost surreal. Last hurdle to nasty and wild commercialization taking place in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. The Green Karachi Trust farm is a pleasant surprise to the people sickened by the greed of builders. The Greener Karachi Trust farm is owned by the founder of the trust. The trust popularly featured in Dawn’s […]
Karachi Landmarks – The War Cemetery
Overwhelmingly green. An oasis in otherwise barren busy neighborhood. Offers surreal emptiness but only few are attracted. One or two gardeners are found raking fallen leaves here. It is on crowded Dalmia road but a step past the monument into the graveyard brings you to a totally different landscape, instantly, as if you have traveled […]
Weekend Trips – Naukot
An Old Guard. Standing alert. Three km northwest of Naukot city, the fort is the first experience for people embarking on journey to Thar. Built by Mir Karam Ali Khan Talpur in 1814 AD, it was lost to British eventually, just like all our possessions. The fort never saw much bloodshed otherwise. However years of […]
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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 Shopping – Kite Sellers Street at Empress
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City Food – Kavita Ka Dhaba
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Nostalgia – Aab-e-gum
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City Landmarks – Coach Emad Football Academy, Singo Lane, Lyari
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City Portraits – A. Rohani, Painter, Patel Pada
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City Culture – Hussain’s vinyl collection
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Anonymous: Do you know the name of that officer? Do you know if his relatives are still living somewhere in Pakistan?…
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