Displaced childhood behind the Ghalib Bar

An almost eight million square feet area behind the great old Ghalib Bar… there sited a modest playground along in the midst of an old huge Victorian edifice and a few numbers of cluttered slum houses. Now all those are just history. That eight million square feet area has been scattered into concrete fragments… now, an enormous temporary playground without a single leaf of grass. The imminent shining mall has left Nasser, Nazia, Isfaq and Kamal orphaned from their natural childhood as it swallowed that little grassplot in its centralized air-conditioned master plan. The unfortunate urban boys… a few days later when they grow older, they won’t even know how they had been thrown out of their childhood to the black stripes of the Elliot Road. And perhaps only the evening bells of the old passing trams will sound a slight melancholy remembering the same… same history of the millions of displaced childhood.