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A Goan Christmas in Karachi
Food, Writing, Longform, Featured, Karachi
A Goan Christmas in Karachi
Food, Writing, Longform, Featured, Karachi

An essay on the foods with which Karachi's Goans celebrate Christmas, it traces the history of the community in the city and how it has evolved over the years.

Food, Writing, Longform, Featured, Karachi
The I Who Becomes A We - the importance of forgetting to fandom
Longform, Featured, Writing, Sports, Art
The I Who Becomes A We - the importance of forgetting to fandom
Longform, Featured, Writing, Sports, Art

An essay for the Indus Valley School's journal Hybrid, on why forgetting is essential to being a sports fan.

Explores the impact of fandom and forgetting in places like junta-run Argentina, the late Roman Empire, and war-torn Iraq.

Longform, Featured, Writing, Sports, Art
Why Karachi’s Indigenous Coastal Cuisine Finds Itself on the Margins
Food, Longform, Karachi, Writing, Featured
Why Karachi’s Indigenous Coastal Cuisine Finds Itself on the Margins
Food, Longform, Karachi, Writing, Featured

Why Karachiites don’t eat seafood, and other myths. An essay for the New Lines Magazine, it explores the sociocultural reasons that have drowned out the city’s indigenous, coastal cuisine.

Food, Longform, Karachi, Writing, Featured
Strange Love
Cricket, Featured, Longform, Writing
Strange Love
Cricket, Featured, Longform, Writing

Written in 2014, this essay marked five years of Pakistan’s cricket exile. Speaking to fans, it traces a cultural history of the sport’s fandom, and how it has persisted despite the exile.

Cricket, Featured, Longform, Writing

Ahmer Naqvi