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Noviembre 23, 2004

karachi

3quarks daily:
bičelis pasakoja apie pakistaną. skaudžiai kažkaip.
Karachi is a more and more culturally arid place, starved for entertainment, increasingly religious, intolerant, lawless, and intellectually bankrupt. There is a small self-congratulatory elite which prides itself on its worldly sophistication at cocktail parties where smuggled Scotch greases the endless mutual admiration of the rich, and there is ecstasy and cocaine available for the raves that the children of this elite throw behind heavily guarded walls (something declaimed with great pride to me several times as proof of Karachi's modernity and refinement), but there is little sustained intellectual activity of any sort, nor a single institution of higher learning of a quality which could anchor such activity. On a given day, it is highly unlikely that there is live music to be heard anywhere, or a poetry reading, or a theater performance, or anything else for that matter (in a city of over 14 million souls!).

Posted by kpmg at Noviembre 23, 2004 2:43 PM kaip.tik.ten

Comments

I am interested in why you found my bitter little description of Karachi interesting enough to post on your blog. Where are you located? What language is this? Who are you? Please write back...

Posted by: Abbas Raza at Noviembre 24, 2004 10:08 AM