Once upon a time in Karachi

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A trip down memory lane … once called the Jewel City of Asia back in 1960s …

Once upon a time in Karachi - Newspaper - DAWN.COM

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How is Karachi when compared with Mumbai?

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It's no nonsense city - SRK. I just hate Mumbai - Anjul

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A distant third

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I like mumbai more than delhi

First two places are reserved for Mumbai?

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Lovely article. Thanks for sharing desert bird

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I like delhi

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Karol Bagh is really nice. Especially Omi.

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yes

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@Southie When we don't understand something, we say yes or no. What is omi?

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Omi ji was last seen at barah/chaubees

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@Southie I know only 'Kai po che' movie's Omi :p

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yes

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@Southie hahaha Kai po che is a gujrati word and shouted when we win in Kite fighting ie when our kite manja break rival's manja (thread). It is akin to Hindi word 'kata re'. In Delhi we shout 'aaibo'. Kai po che is also a name of a Hindi movie based on Cricket & gujrat riots

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Funny - In Tamil kai poche means lost hand. Manja being sharp could result in kai poche.

Never did learn to fly kite.

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@Southie I also don't know and today is kite festival. Happy Makar Samkranti :)

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I read Jewel as Jews. Lols. The city do have a synagogue, many churches, temples and old mosques.

From the description I found about Mumbai in Rohinton Mistry’s books specially ‘Such A Long Journey’, there are many similarities between two cities. Port, multicultural, apartments (No other city in Pakistan got as much apartments as Karachi for obvious reasons). Even when Mistry mentions Markets in Mumbai specially meat shops, it reminds me Empress Market, Sadar Karachi. Then there is Shiv Sena, very much counterpart of MQM in Karachi.

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@muqawwee123 multicultural apartments like chawls?

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multicultural in dimensions. apartments can be said chawls. Though, I don't have an experience of chawls. May be, they are small apartments / flats.

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Happy Makar Samkranti