Enter if ye dare the ‘organ cemetery’
By Amar Guriro KARACHI – Apart from targeted killings and land grabbing, heritage sites and multicultural communities, Karachi also has some famous graves and graveyards with the most notable being the tomb of Pakistan’s founder Quaid-e-Azam, the 1,400-year-old Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine and the British era’s Gora Qabristan (Christian cemetery). But a small portion at the historical Essa Nagri graveyard (formerly known as the Country Club Qabristan) serves for an…
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Monsoon in Sindh pours cold water on Dalit Hindus’ pilgrimage to Tando Allahyar
Text and Photo by Amar Guriro KARACHI – The recent catastrophic monsoon has postponed Hindu saint Rama Pir’s annual mela – the biggest gathering of Dalit Hindus in Pakistan – besides destroying standing crops, houses, bridges, schools and healthcare facilities; killing people, livestock and wildlife; and damaging heritage sites and government buildings. Months ago, a large number of lower caste Hindus – or officially declared as scheduled caste Hindus by…
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Season of death instead of breeding for Thar’s peafowl
By Amar Guriro KARACHI – Besides causing sweeping damages to crops, houses, bridges, schools, healthcare facilities, heritage sites and government buildings in five districts of lower Sindh, the recent catastrophic monsoon in the past two fortnights has started taking its toll on wildlife species. In different villages of Tharparkar district – the hub of deer and most precious wildlife species of peafowl – 16 peacocks have been reported dead so…
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