By Bilal Zuberi Karachiites know donkey cart races well. I have myself witnessed them on many different streets in the city, from Sharah-e-Faisal to the main Univeristy Road. Amin Gulgee has even erected a monument to celebrate the city’s interesting pastime. Donkey carts, with their single riders guiding them masterfully on Karachi streets and making […]
It is quite clear — and totally understandable — that the poor ganDerri or gaNNa (sugarcane) does not elicit the type of interest or reaction that, for example, aam (mango) does. But let me stick with the topic just one more day. This is partly because I really like ganDerri at least as much as […]
Adil Najam Jansher Khan was the last of the great ‘Squash Khans’ of Pakistan. He was not the greatest by any stretch; that would have to be either Jehangir or Hashim But he was the last. And as if that wasn’t dubious distinction enough; one can now also say that he is the most disgraced […]
