[Reader-list] Karachi ki Kahani

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Dear friends,

Karachi ki Kahani is a two-volume, 950-page
compilation in Urdu on the past, present and future of
Pakistan's biggest metro, including selection of
writings on Karachi,  maps, photographs, statistics,
bibliography

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ki Kahani by replying to this message and indicating
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Press Reviews of the Earlier Version (published in
1996)

A compendium on Karachi: a hundred years hence, this
two-volume compilation will serve as a source of basic
information about this megapolis.

¯ Muhammad Ali Siddiqui, Dawn, Karachi, 7 June 1996

 

Ajmal Kamal, who produced an earlier number of Aaj on
the ethnic cauldron of former Yugoslavia, has tried to
get to Karachi's personality and its concealed layers
of self-destruction. The two volumes under review are
an act of courage
 Ajmal Kamal has performed the
incredible task of unearthing the real history of a
city exploited by its leaders
 The two volumes of Aaj
provide new ways of looking at the city and ourselves.

¯ Khaled Ahmed, The Friday Times, Lahore, 21-29 May
1996

 

We must all celebrate the publication of the two
volumes of Aaj on Karachi titled Karachi ki Kahani. We
have here, almost for the first time, a window on
Karachi which affords an expansive revealing view of
the various transformations that the city has endured

Karachi ki Kahani may still be partially told but Aaj
has fostered our essential kinship with a city in
which the nation's own crisis of identity must be
resolved.

¯ Ghazi Salahuddin, Newsline, Karachi, May 1996

 

This anthology of writings on Karachi is a painstaking
labour of love, an attempt to rescue the city from the
kind of thinking which can lead only to despair
 The
effort that has gone into the selection and editing of
the material and the translation from English and
Sindhi must have called for almost a superhuman
stamina for work, to say nothing of a dedication to
the ideal of creating an environment of harmony and
peace in a city torn by senseless dissensions.
¯ M. H. Askari, The Herald, Karachi, June 1996


Contributors
 
Naomal Hotchand, John Brunton, K.R. Malkani, Pir Ali
Mohammad Rashdi, Nagendranath Gupta, Diwan Singh
Maftoon, Lokram Dodeja, Sohrab Katrak, Dr. Feroz
Ahmed, Raffat Khan Haward, G. D. Khosla, Mohan
Kalpana, Shaikh Ayaz, Sobho Gyanchandani, Kewal
Motwani, Hatim Alvi, Hasan Habib, A. K. Brohi, Anwar
Shaikh, Mir Imdad Ali, Abdul Hameed Shaikh, Hasan
Manzar, Asad Mohammad Khan, Sigrid Kahle, Marjorie
Hussain, Anita Ghulam Ali, Fahmida Riaz, Akhtar Hameed
Khan, Asif Farrukhi, Mohammad Hanif, Zeenat Hisam,
Benjamin Anthony, Sharif Soz, Liaquat Munawwar, Bexter
Bhatti, Nasreen Stephen, Asif Shahbaz, Mahboob Jan,
Tasneem Siddiqui, Kenneth Fernandez, Jan van der
Linden, S Akbar Zaidi, Mark Tully, Arif Hasan.

The two-volume anthology is dedicated to the memory of
Jamshed Nusserwanji Mehta, Karachi's benefactor and
long-time head of the Karachi Municipality. 


 
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