Ode to Karachi

 

Karachiwala: A Subcontinent Within a City, By Rumana Husain

 

Reviewed by Murtaza Razvi Dawn, 27 Feb, 2010

 

In a country steadily rehearsing for uniformity of opinion on matters national and global, Karachi’s cultural diversity is at once intriguing and enchanting. It is the city of a bulging, bellowing, moving, shaking, teetering and tethering middleclass, the rich and the famous, the brave and the brute as well as the meek and the poor.