Beyond the walls: women and the public spaces
Beyond the confines of the four walls of the home, women are fiercely reclaiming the City. This is evident in their increasing presence at bus stops on Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, theirMobility woes
SARA — not her real name — is a single mother of three who works as domestic help in three houses — a kilometre apart — in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Karachi. ShePorous loans
“Rags make paper/ paper makes money/ Money makes banks/ Banks make loans/ Loans make beggars/ Beggars make rags” — an 18th-century poem, when paper was made from rags, not trees.