Comments on: Khuda ki basti

By: waqar

waqar — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:54:14 +0000

Following a trend is always our passion. We did not, We do not and GOD forbids, we will not create a new trend!

By: Lina

Lina — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37:18 +0000

Very nice! Thanks for this post.

By: Shaista

Shaista — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:31:43 +0000

FK you have great potential to talk about the most intricate of all subjects with such great ease! It makes very fluent and smooth reading and not a single moment of boredom! And that my friend is the true identity of a great writer. Well done! Keep ‘em coming!

By: TheGoriWife

TheGoriWife — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:05:15 +0000

That reminds me, I should write about shopping in Lalukhait and post some of my pictures. Or maybe I have before, I’ll have to check. I’ve got some really great pictures of TeenHatti and it’s slums, I wonder how I could write about that without being insensitive. I was once invited by a mehndi artist to come to her home for dinner in Teenhatti. I should’ve gone – what a great experience that would have been. Que sera…

By: Floost

Floost — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:45:35 +0000

I really like your blog and i respect your work. I’ll be a frequent visitor.

By: Domino

Domino — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:25:19 +0000

Haha I love Karachi and your bit is really well written. I came up with a few reading your spiel:

Perfume chawk which has no hint of perfume whatsoever

boat basin having no boats or basin just food

machchar colony which is completely justified since humans co-inhabit secondary to mosquitoes

oh so there’s a place in sindh called ‘gutter’ (pronounce it the desi way) where there are numerous water purification plants…dubiously.

devil’s point…rightfully, practially and judgementally named.

submarine chawk where there was once a submarine at the center of the roundabout but that was a long time ago…

and schon circle will forever immortalize the schon group before their exposure as crooks extraordinaire.

thanks for the article. thoroughly enjoyed it!

By: karachikhatmal

karachikhatmal — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:11:57 +0000

this is probably one of your best posts ever! great read, and piles on the seprartion pangs for my city…

By: Rai Azlan

Rai Azlan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:14:26 +0000

it was a fun to read this u have done a great job by writing it and let us know such unique names given to the placec.
its been more or less 14 year since i visited Karachi last time and after reading this all the memories i had abt Khi are seems to get fresh again.

By: Marvi Sirmed

Marvi Sirmed — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:41:08 +0000

Good one. Names of places have always been an interest area for me. And Karachi’s places have them in most unique of the fashion, agreed.

Just to share my bewilderment I got few years back during my USA visit. If you have a chance to travel on the turnpike from DC towards south probably 70 to 75 miles from DC, you’ll find an unexpectedly named little village, Lahore! My finest enemy, my curiosity, pushed me to know more about it and I found out that this small town was named Lahore in mid 1800s. And reportedly, it’s major part has been bought by a Lahori soul from Pakistan! ))

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