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Inside the city's oldest music shop
Harmoniums, tablas and a repair bench that never empties.
Shehr Weekly
The city, every week.
Culture
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Inside the city's oldest music shop
Harmoniums, tablas and a repair bench that never empties.
CultureEssay
Why small bookshops are opening again
Cafés, readings and staff who actually read. A new kind of bookshop in Islamabad.
CultureFeature
A film club that meets on a rooftop
A projector, a white sheet and forty plastic chairs. The best cinema in town.
Design & craft
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Design & craftFeature
How blue pottery got its blue
Cobalt, ground quartz and a kiln that runs all night. Inside a family studio.
Design & craftProfile
The tailors of the old bazaar
Measurements in a notebook, a tape around the neck and thirty years of regular customers.
City life
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City lifeFeature
What a city looks like at 5 am
Milk vans, sweepers, joggers and the first tea of the day. A photo essay.
City lifeFeature
The architecture of the old havelis
Courtyards, jharokas and thick walls built for heat long before air conditioning.
City lifeEssay
The new cafés and the old dhabas
Two ways to spend an evening out, and what each says about the city.
Ideas
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IdeasEssay
What we owe the places we grew up in
An essay about leaving, returning and the small towns that made us.