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In this city of millions, private sanctuaries are hard to come by for most. But in some dark corners of Karachi, there are bursts of colour and rays of light that make safe havens where previously there were none. - Hussain Afzal / White Star
What is your urban sanctuary? Do you think there can be privacy or personalised spaces of respite in the teeming katchi abadis and unplanned settlements of Karachi?
Dawn.com invites its readers to share their images of urban sanctuaries for publication on the website.
The following reader comments do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Dawn Media Group.
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Jan 05, 2010 09:53am
There is always a choice of privacy!! Irrespective of where you are living. You can be living in a joint family and yet choose to stay in your room. Further more it could be a four walled space of work where you could feel at home. It is just how you look at things to such a question!!!
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Jan 05, 2010 10:23am
Home is home regardless of its drawbacks and imperfection. It
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Jan 05, 2010 10:27am
Yes I remember that in the 90
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Jan 06, 2010 07:15am
This surely is not a very penetrating photograph to me. It fails to compel me to think in any other terms except that its upper left corner is very distracting. And the placement of objects, well, seems no to me.
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Jan 06, 2010 10:49am
S.A.M. does the maid have a name other than 'the maid'?
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Jan 06, 2010 12:00pm
@ Rima Varsy:
Name doesn
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Jan 06, 2010 12:26pm
Yes Rima Varsi "The Maid" name was Zulekha. We used to call her zulekha bai.
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Jan 06, 2010 04:32pm
I don't know about you folks, but names are important. I would not like to be referred to by my profession. It
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Jan 07, 2010 01:09pm
RIMA
I had deliberately not mentioned the name cause it is coming in the paper.
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