Tales from abroad: Karachi – by Alia Poonawala | The Tartan Online

Get a taste of the native cuisine of Pakistan

I subscribe to the thinking that, organically, all humans are fundamentally the same. We all need or desire the same things; we just go about getting them differently. But this happy little ideology of mine was heavily challenged this past summer. I hadn’t seen the impact of my summer abroad in Pakistan until I was in the U.S., two weeks after I had returned from Karachi.

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  1. What a masterfully written piece!; it engaged all the nooks and crannies of my sensuality and, despite the sense of letdown at the end, I came away feeeling alive and engulfed by all the imageary evoked from flowing sentences. I subsequently commandeered my brothers, repaired to Lahore Tikka House on Gerrard Street for a midnight tryst with gastronomic destiny and tried to live this experience, with some success.

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  2. You have a beautiful way with words. Made me hunger with nostalgia for the five of the most joyful years of my life spent in Karachi 1967/72

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