The Aga Khan Jubilée and the fishermen

A Time Patrol movie Karachi, Pakistan, 1954. Just to put ourselves in the mood, let’s start with my mother’s sarees and a necklace she bought at the Boree Bazaar. We’ll drive the -then almost- empty streets of Karachi, carefully avoiding the bicycles and the horse-drawn carriages. Where are we going? To the Aga Khan’s Jubilée.…

Three little monkeys

Some of you may have read Snowball, a “re-constructed” tale of my first few years in Pakistan. How I learnt Urdu before French or English and other details. I you haven’t read it, or feel like refreshing, here’s the link: Now, as I am almost done digitizing (and “post producing” my mother’s 8mm movies), There…