Karachi and beautiful? Please tell me you are joking.
November 15, 2017
Why are you in denial? Is this a trick to pull you through the visual torture of this city? When you say Karachi is beautiful, what element of this city qualifies for this statement?
For years, I was told (and even now) that I was crazy (and am) and that there was something wrong with me when I expressed my dislike for the city I am living in as a captive. (Seriously, totally stuck here due to Mr. M.) I was once a great fan of my beloved Karachi.
Then the population explosion happened…
Anyways, in current scenario, when you say beautiful, do you refer to the aesthetically bruised infrastructure, which is literally breathing on a life support system hanging on loose wires? Dying and encroached British and French architecture? (makes me cry every time I go to the city center). Don’t mind please. I am not criticizing your notion. I am trying to understand your perspective so I can correct myself.
Do you equate all this over exposed obnoxiousness to some form of overrated contemporary art?
My new way of peaceful living is to understand your perspective so I can accommodate myself with your theories as possibility allows.
So…
Heaps of garbage…
Red spits (of ‘Pan’) on sidewalks, doors, gates, walls, advertisements…
Seepage on old and new buildings…
Wild plants growing on sewage pipes and buildings…
Canopy of tangled unusable wires over head…
Torn paint on ripped concrete structure…
Curtain of carbon dioxide blocking clarity of vision…
Noise of transport and people…
Felled trees (because they think they grow fast when you slaughter them from neck)…
Lack of greenery…
Dirt…
Stink…
Lack of law observation…
Ignorance…
All ‘a composition of beauty’ ?
Perhaps, instead of being proud of all this, lying, denying, and becoming aggressive towards me when I point out or question, you improve it.
Don’t worry about me, I am moving to Islamabad soon.
Mr. M. shall follow.
ps. I will upload some photos soon.
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