Tag: Pakistan

 

 

Perchance you are wondering why the featured image’s little girl in the white dress looks familiar…we had encountered her one hour earlier, in a courtyard.

There, she had danced – not as a “performance” – but spontaneously, as pictured in this series’ chapter #4.

Lahore is one of the world’s hottest and most polluted cities.

However, on the morning of 12 May 2024 the air was surprisingly “fresh”,  temperature atypically moderate, and there were puddles in streets.

These were all thanks to the violent storm that had suddenly thundered in, overnight.

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I have no idea whether or not any local law or regulation was being breached.

If any relevant “Occupational Health and Safety” rules were notionally applicable, Lahore’s employers and employees were obviously well aware that such rules were notional, only.

One would never see a working person carry such an enormous load – in full public view – on any Australian street.

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For those whose shopping list contains just two very particular items – each utterly unlike the other – the pictured street vendor is their one-stop shop.

The bearded gentleman was selling only three products.

One was packaged in boxes: it kills rodents.

Another was “loose”; the dried plant-parts are “medicinal” – allegedly beneficial to humans’ health and life expectancy.

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Lahore’s walled city contains some truly extraordinary “built heritage”; two of its mosques ought be on any globetrotter’s “bucket list” and its fort is one of “our” planet’s grandest.

This “old city” is, however, neither a “museum” nor a “theme park”.

Most of it is very “real”, complex, busy and not-immaculate – an urban place in which many people live, work, shop.

It will surprise any visiting westerner who had preconceived Pakistan as a “forbidding” or “unfriendly” destination, and/or as one in which only males are highly-visible, in public.

On Lahore’s streets, adult women are abundantly present, most of them do not hide their faces, and it is not the least bit unusual to see an obviously-confident woman, venturing out in her own right, unchaperoned.

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As we enjoyed our drum-driven welcome, we visitors/tourists had a little “forest” of our phone-cameras, blazing. (& yours truly’s camera-as-such)

Also blazing were at least as many phone-cameras in local residents’ hands.

Mutual curiosity and bonhomie were abundantly evident.

This little “event” proved enjoyable to all persons present, including those who were not photographing it.

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