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Exhibition: Story of Displacement
A recent exhibition at Commune Artist Colony titled Seeking Home explores and questions the idea of home, and its relation to identity through the Afghan narrative of migration and displacement. The exhibition, curated by Marvi Mazhar, featured textual, photographic and video documentary-based journalistic works by Zehra Nawab, Danial Shah and Salman Alam. The show is the Karachi chapter of a …
Administrative overlaps, poor planning ail Karachi
As a city of over 20 million people, Karachi is bursting at the seams and is plagued with many problems, but chief among them are the issues of administrative overlap and lack of ownership. This was the outcome of a panel discussion…
A peep into immigrant phenomenon
A highly enlightening and informative exhibition on the refugee phenomenon opened at the Commune Artist Colony on Saturday afternoon. The exhibition titled ‘Arrival City’ was held under the joint auspices of the Goethe-Institut and Marvi Mazhar & Associates.
Pakistan’s maximum city on its knees
In a video that went viral recently, a young man is seen sitting on his bike outside the Karachi Mayor’s office. The road is flooded with dirty water. “You know MF? They are all MF,” he says, referring to political leaders. He was hailed “a Karachi hero” on Twitter for…
‘Sabeen Ke Baad’: A Story About Two Women Who Lifted Each Other up
For the past few months, the Goethe Institut’s Sunday Matinees have been drawing large audiences to Capri Cinema via unkempt, dug-up roads, but this Sunday, the audience wept together, and…
Mahera Omar’s documentary to be screened at Mexican and Swedish festivals
Mahera Omar’s ‘Pakistan Chowk’ is the latest film to be screened at international festivals. The documentary has been selected to be screened at the CINETEKTON International Architecture Film Festival
The film tells the story of the urban interventions in Karachi by heritage consultant and architect Marvi Mazhar.
Need to see Karachi through the lens of reality
Installing wooden boards in the red zone area saying ‘Up Town’, ‘Down Town’, ‘Karachi My Kind of City’, Mazhar believes that is tantamount to seeing Karachi through the lens of superficiality. There are six to eight centres. How do you manage it? “With this comes a very heavy notion of public spaces. How do people negotiate and interact with public spaces?” she asked.
Pakistan Chowk: Restoring the glory of a neglected heritage site
The iconic Pakistan Chowk which oozes history but now wears a derelict look is soon to be developed into a heritage site with the inauguration of a community centre which will include the community in the upkeep and the projection of…
Did Singh Govt paint a historical mosque white?
On Wednesday, the department uploaded photos of the mosque after restoring it, but a mosque wall that appeared to be painted white angered many users.
They criticised the department for "destroying Sindh's heritage" and even made the situation into a meme.