Karachi Nights

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Last night, after many weeks of feeling secretly demoralized with the city, I felt the Karachi spirit rise up inside me again at the culmination of a Foundation Year project at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture. An event management project held by the first year for the friends, alumni and students, Karachi Nights was a comment on everything we love and crib about, in this dusty city of ours. From the dinner food served on the roadside thelas a la Burns Road and Boat Basin style, to the gorgeously done twinkling lights and stars, all the way to the W-11 passenger personalities, ethically mismatched love stories, timechecks, annoying ads and qawwalis, it was a hilariously true tribute to Karachi in every sense of the word. Unfortunately, it wasn’t open to public for many reasons (one being that it was an actual graded project) but it is something that one can definitely request them to go public with. After all, Karachi loves attention.

This is jammie, signing out.

10 Comments so far

  1. sadaf (unregistered) on June 4th, 2006 @ 10:40 pm

    wish i could have seen it..

    do let us know if they ever go public, i’d love to attend.


  2. Tee (unregistered) on June 4th, 2006 @ 10:46 pm

    the picture looks really nice despite the fact that we cant see much :-)
    i wish it was open for public though, would’ve been a relief coz lately m kinda disappointed wid my city….


  3. wasiq (unregistered) on June 5th, 2006 @ 2:23 am

    Good news the movie “THE DA VINCI CODE” is banned in Pakistan….

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5045672.stm


  4. Mansoor 'Manny' Siddiqui (unregistered) on June 5th, 2006 @ 3:32 am

    Waqis, just wondering why is that a good news? Thanks.


  5. Checkmate (unregistered) on June 5th, 2006 @ 10:01 am

    Nnothing can be banned in PK. Last time I checked PORn is still being filmed in Rainbow Center, so I Am sure the people who loved the book will get to see the ‘kancha’ print very soon.

    P.S. Was the govt hybernating when the book was being sold on every stall and book store. Talk about hypocrisy. Bah !


  6. Adnan (unregistered) on June 5th, 2006 @ 10:14 am


    I Am sure the people who loved the book will get to see the ‘kancha’ print very soon.

    hahaha @kancha:D


    Last time I checked PORn is still being filmed in Rainbow Center,

    Porn cant be banned anywhere.By the way did you check yourself?I am asking because unless you have some special terms with shopkeepers you cant have any porn CD in your hand.


    Was the govt hybernating when the book was being sold on every stall and book store. Talk about hypocrisy.

    they had no shitty idea about that particular novel.They came to know about movie ONLY after banning in different parts of the world


  7. Checkmate (unregistered) on June 5th, 2006 @ 11:43 am

    @Adnan, no i did not check myself LOL . Sorry to disappoint you but i won’t be able to “hook you up” The last thing i need in my life is Pakistani Porn. But I work with men and get to hear all sorts of stories and rundowns (even if i don’t want to). As for banning of the movie after the ban in different countries I salute the free thinking nation of Pakistan. B.Sh….


  8. wasiq (unregistered) on June 6th, 2006 @ 3:01 am

    checkmate baji jee you rocked my chair twice!….anyways i saw this report on cnn last week which claimed that CD’s and the DVD’s are out…nobody in the US or japan is buying them anymore….Download is the new trend..the fad and the dough…………….


  9. Checkmate (unregistered) on June 6th, 2006 @ 1:11 pm

    Let the downloads begin!!!!


  10. dts (unregistered) on June 8th, 2006 @ 7:42 pm

    thats amazing :)



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