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The neat blend of forgotten and old times with today’s world!
The Karachi walla recently visited an antique market and captured the essence of a long gone era.
A definite treasure trove. A walk down the memory lane. A refuge for memorabilia. In the heart of Saddar lies a market which sells nostalgia, that too in abundance. The Karachi walla went there to …
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Thank you for sharing Karachi Waller…it looks such a fascinating city, I would love to poke around the streets! I suspect that won’t be possible so I’m following instead 🙂
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Thanks for liking the post, Vicky!!
Poking around the city is not an issue for a local but for a foreigner, it is a different story.
And that is where I drop in. Your virtual tour guide!!
Not on a full duty though but up to some extent.
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It might interest you to know there are some such shops clustered in a particular area in South Mumbai, plus we have something called Chor Bazaar where you’d find other small shops selling antiques (not all of them genuine!).
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Rightly said! This is just one market though. There are many more in Karachi also, just like Mumbai
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Good to get to know more about each other’s cities in this way! Somebody else from Karachi had put up a shot of a large, Raj era market (Empress Market, is it?) and I could have sworn it was Crawford Market in Bombay!
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Yes, Empress Market it is. Before partition, and still today, it is one of the busiest market here. I shared a link about it few months ago:
https://hammadrais.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/a-photographers-karachi/
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Wonderful, thanks! BTW< Dawn is a great newspaper, way better than Times of India 🙂 I often read it online…
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🙂 Oh wow!
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