Markets, trades and working lives.
A magazine about markets and the people who work in them: tailors, printers, traders and tea boys.
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A day at the wholesale cloth market
Thousands of bolts, hundreds of shops and a language of prices you learn by listening.
Ten objects that tell the story of a home
A steel trunk, a radio, a prayer mat. Readers sent us the objects their families kept.
More stories
Design & craftFeature
The last letterpress in the old city
Wooden type, hand-mixed ink and wedding cards that take a week. A workshop that refuses to hurry.
CultureFeature
Inside the city's oldest music shop
Harmoniums, tablas and a repair bench that never empties.
City lifeFeature
What a city looks like at 5 am
Milk vans, sweepers, joggers and the first tea of the day. A photo essay.
Design & craftFeature
How blue pottery got its blue
Cobalt, ground quartz and a kiln that runs all night. Inside a family studio.
CultureEssay
Why small bookshops are opening again
Cafés, readings and staff who actually read. A new kind of bookshop in Rawalpindi.