The Bin Laden Library
“Gone but definitely not forgotten (especially by Obama). Nice library. Nice Kalash. Love the Kandahari guerrillero fashion. In the future he will be the subject of Uomo Vogue spreads.” Pepe Escobar
Occupy Strand
If you have ever sold a book for or to the Strand you know there is nothing new in being taken advantage of by the Bass’s. When we parted company in 1975, over the then deplorable working conditions, poverty wages, the abusive attitude of management to staff and the unionization of the shop, it was […]
A century of bookselling in Karachi. Zubeida Mustafa.
NOT many readers would have visited Juna Market, the commercial hub of Karachi where hardware and spices compete with halwa puri to find buyers. In the ocean of commodities catering to hedonistic pleasures stands a lone modest-looking bookshop that seeks to nourish the mind. It has been doing that for 102 years, an anomaly among […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library