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When Ancient Gods Walked the Streets of Karachi

A Ramayana Unlike Any Other A Sunday Draped in Theatre Curtains – July 13th, 2025 Hanuman, on the left, discovers Sita, under the Ashoka tree in Ashok Vatika, a pivotal moment in the epic. Khurram has been my partner in crime since our A Levels, my theatre twin, my fellow obsessive. We’ve always made a gang of two, slipping into velvet seats and shadowed aisles, watching the same plays again and again until the lines live in our bones. The shadows were already gathering in the foyer of the Arts Council when Khurram and I arrived, as if the very walls knew somet

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Whispers of Legends

A Journey of Self-Discovery and Mystery From the hallowed halls of his MBA program university, Ayan emerged not just with a degree in finance and human resources but with an unquenchable thirst for the mystical. Born into affluence, his life could have been a canvas of luxury, yet Ayan sought more, yearning for the ancient whispers that echoed through Pakistan's history. It was in the bustling chaos of Karachi, amidst the honking horns and bustling bazaars, that Ayan's fascination with folklore and mythology took root. The dusty tomes of his university library becam

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Vindictive Zeus

Being fascinated by Greek and Hindu mythology since my toddler days, I am often found reading a myth and even that day I was reading an interesting story and according to this Greek legend, when men were created, the great god Zeus gave each one a gift of two bags, one bag was full of man’s own faults and the other full of everybody else’s faults. But when the moment came for Zeus to give man his two bags, each one hanging at the opposite end of a carrying pole, by mistake he put the bag with everybody else’s fault in front, whilst the other bag with one’s own defects fini

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