Karachi Voice

This is a picture taken in Ramzan, while I was having iftar with my friend in PIZZA HUT on boat basin, clifton. while waiting for the sirens to go off i was holding thir fork which had PAPA JONES engraved on it! it is quite amazing how the management of pizza hut could be so dull about its own brand name! im guessing it could be a job of some teenagers trying to have some fun by stealing and replacing crockery from different restraunts in karachi, or it could be a mistake by a common supplier. but no matter what, it is still stupid to have it on the table!

I just saw these words written behind a bus, "apnay kirdar ke khud tameer karo". this is the first time ever i have read something that is not under the subject of love hate or regret! what this may seem to be is a hadith, but whatever it is it is quite right!

With an empty stomach, the thirst, the heat, the work load, the stress, no cigarettes, no pan's for the addicts it is meant to be the month of controlling and holding oneself back from sins and bad deeds, but as it turns out the atmosphere around isn't very pleasant out on the roads. its a shame for muslims though, but there is one thing i noticed during this month was that they have arranged voulanteer traffic controller around the city. there are at least 6 to 8 men at each signal. they are indeed doing a pretty good job. thumbs up to you guys!

....And now its time, time when they have been exhausted, they have been hungry. The sun is about to set and the sirens are about to go off. This is the time when the watches are being watched the most through out the year, a second of which seems to pass extraordinarily slow. Women in the kitchen, men around the kitchen and kids probably be out with friends, flying kite or just hanging out, some of which make fake siren sounds to fool the crowd! Finally the moment comes, the sirens go off, its time to pray the dua and break the fast. The ever-new pakoray, phulkiyan, chanay, dahi baray type of iftari items fills up every dinning tables in every home. Just after 20 to 30 minutes they have eaten so much that they just want to crash down on the bed and take a nap. Thats the spirit of ramzan and the rozay!

Every night I wake up from the sleep, go into my balcony, enjoy the silence, the darkness, the light breeze, the fog and the dampness in air. I always think that the night is the most pleasant time in 24 hours. But in ramzan the pleasure of the night time is indescribable. The thing we refer to as 'Ramzan effect' is truly great.

Now the accelerator cable of this rickshaw has broken down. The guy is fixing it. and yes, Indeed! i just asked him why he had that advertisement there, he tells me that when it gets hot he uses it to sit on it or use it to shade himself from the sun. i then asked him does he have any idea what is written on it, he replied he cant read. i gently asked him to replace it. it was just a matter of a little communication, he immediately asked me a favor, he started to talk about his son who was ill and needed money for an operation. as i get off handed over to him some extra cash, as i never do that and highly doubt the deserving ones, also the month or Ramzan is just around the corner!

In reference to my earlier post about the 'Stuff' you can find in rickshaws and buses passenger area, this one clearly crosses the line of either illiteracy or vulgarity. Cant say for sure if this advertisement on the carton right into my face is a deliberate action by a 60 year old bearded driver or its just that they don't know anything (The probability of which is quite low).