The magical world of Frere hall
No matter what one might say, we as a nation still do not read enough books. One might argue that we have entire areas of our city dedicated to just books and paper/stationary (Urdu Bazaar, Sir Syed Urdu Bazaar etc.) but the fact remains... People and students do not read enough. However, the most interesting bit is whatever good books we had collected (and there were quite a few to be honest) we had all bought from Karachi. There used to be a store in Karachi, called the American Book Shop (I think. My dad would know for sure) which was like this HUGE book heaven for me . So imagine how difficult it was for and my siblings to wait for an entire year, to be able to get back to Pakistan to visit this wonderful book haven. I remember both me and my sister would start on my ‘Books to buy’ list the very next day we’d land back from Pakistan. Sadly enough, this shop didn’t survive too long, and we...