Introduction

To my mother Cheena All that I am, I owe it to her...

I am a Karachiite, and was born and raised in the city of lights. My family originally hails from Agra, India; the city of the Taj Mahal. Both my parents’ families migrated to Karachi after the partition in 1948. My Nana’s (Syed Haider Raza Rizvi) great grandfather’s (Mir Zamin Ali Rizvi) mausoleum still stands tall in Shahganj, Agra. I was fortunate to get an opportunity to visit his grave in 2014, and it was one of the most surreal experiences of my life.