Hand-Painted in Karachi

As pointed out in my earlier post, there are so many good looking, colorful buses that get people around Karachi. And that's not all that breaks up the desert landscape.

This piece sits on a wall of a building in Karachi's Zamzama neighborhood. The outline of this boy is made up of verses from a poem by Faiz Ahmad Faid called "The Names of Those Sad Mothers."



This old-school advertisement for "Double Cool" Double Cola is near the high school where Jinnah went in Karachi's Lighthouse Tower neighborhood.



Other hand-painted signs like this one line the walls of a track and cricket field in Clifton. If you go there, don't spit pan, which is the chewable betel leaf mixed with areca nut, some other things and sometimes tobacco...



Even some of the license plates look like they were done by hand.