City of Dreams

Text and Photographs by Deneb Sumbul This article was originally published in Newsline’s September 2015 issue. The brainchild behind painting the public walls around Karachi with vibrant, vivid art deserves major kudos. So do all those involved in trying to inject colour into Karachi’s dreary, often dark cityscape – and in doing so letting this teeming metropolis …

The Tales of 15 Goths

By Deneb Sumbul Working closely with women home-based workers in their homes was one of the most interesting undertakings I’ve ever been a part of, or worked in.  It was Najma Sadeque’s Women’s Economic Empowerment project aiming to help one of the most economically exploited and marginalized women of the female work force in Karachi. …