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“Karachi has the sea!”
Checkmate. A city-brag is won.
Clifton Beach has long been a source of pride for Karachiites. A truly awaami spot, it attracts scores of people on August 14, on Eid, on the weekends and every time it rains. This beach is not just an edge of land and sea, it is the middle ground, where people across the megacity’s tense socio-economic and physical boundaries and bridges meet.
There’s a shared memory that you will find in the old photo albums or camera rolls of everyone who has lived in Karachi: a still at Clifton Beach. The landmark is a fixture in paintings, dramas, poems, songs, postcards and family stories. From the imagery of lovers longing in Junaid Jamshed’s Na Tu Aayegi, to Christopher Lee’s solitary stroll in and as Jinnah, the seafront with its waves, colours and majesty is a visual of familiarity that connects urban dwellers.
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Karachi is constantly evolving but, unfortunately, city planning has failed to keep up with the metro’s changing dynamics. How can we move past ‘solutions’ such as signal-free corridors, which benefit only a segment of the citizenry, and towards urban mobility planning that is more people-centric?
It is a day like any other in Karachi.
There is a seemingly never-ending traffic jam at a signal during rush hour. Buses are jam-packed, even during the coronavirus pandemic. And most vehicles are at a standstill; the exceptions being motorbikes that miraculously manage to find ways to move forward.
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