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The first few paragraphs convey exactly how I've personally experienced Karachi as someone from Lahore. It's a wonderfully clean, or incredibly polluted, well m
by amingilani 8y ago
The first few paragraphs convey exactly how I've personally experienced Karachi as someone from Lahore. It's a wonderfully clean, or incredibly polluted, well managed or a completely broken down city, with beautifully complex and horridly broken bridges which is fairly safe, or so unsafe that I should avoid wearing a business suit or carrying a moderately expensive phone.
The people I've interacted with are usually either very educated, or not at all, and either health conscious or addicted to chewing tobacco (or whatever the "gutka" really is). Incidentally, I've heard that the gutka is a just chewing tobacco, or a mix of cigarette tobacco, battery acid, and animal blood.. all when I asked someone in Karachi.
But hey, atleast everyone in Karachi agrees that their food is better than Lahore's. However, much like everyone in Lahore, I believe they're mistaken.
- baybal2 8y agoGutka == Paan?
- pm90 8y agoIts actually more akin to chewing tobacco with herbs and spices than pan. But it is similar. Paan also uses betel leaves which is not used in Gutka. Paan is usually prepared fresh in roadside stalls/restaurants whereas Gutka comes in little plastic pouches.
- oh_sigh 8y agoAre you saying that going from block to block an individual experiences vastly different worlds, or are you saying that Lahore is in the eyes of the beholder and some may see it as an amazing city and others would view it as a shithole?
- amingilani 8y agoThe former, although I'm talking about Karachi, and not Lahore.