Gujjar, Orangi and Original Sin
July 11, 2021
Karachi is a creature of the Frankensteinian variety – assembled by stitching together body parts from a dozen different corpses. Body parts that shouldn’t go together but have been forced to throb to the same spluttering heartbeat. A beast created by man.
Organs now grow at their own will – cancerous growths swelling into each other, suffocating one another. Flailing limbs tethered to twenty puppeteers – from the KMC to the DMC, and the KDA to the DHA.
Karachi is hard work, but if you make it, you’ll find ways to filter out the noise. Sixteen million people accept this bargain every day. It’s still no beauty; but it’s a beast that can be tamed. As the city coughs up black fumes for the sea breeze to carry into the lungs of the powerless, the powerful roll up their windows.