Inside Panorama

Fluctuations in the Educated Niche

Bryan Adams was in Karachi!!!

LOL....Wow, was it absolutely amazing! I promise I'll get to the relation to education in this post very soon, but it was so good to see an international musician in a country which is supposedly a high danger zone. The beauty of this is that he arrived on the same day a warning was issued to Americans against traveling to Pakistan! Three cheers to Mr. Adams for breaking the chains of taboo and acknowledging that music is the universal language!

Now, the tickets were expensive...they had to be, it was a charity concert, and inevitably it attracted an educated niche of Karachiites...those who could afford to pay the odd Rs. 3000 for a few hours. And wow, were they all well behaved! That's a rare sight for our country! No fights with each other or the guards. The security was great - it didn't feel like we were entering a war zone. It was very difficult to believe that we were still in Karachi...we just might have been in Kansas! And the crowd was responding brilliantly to him...singing right on time and on key.

So why the fluctuation of the educated niche? If you've had the pleasure of attending other concerts in Karachi know that a smooth event is a rarity...educated niche or not. One expects the privileged educated to be setting a model for others, however this is rarely the case. The educated ones are often those who possess the most ego, who will be the first to protest if searched because no one has 'the right' to question them. Not to say that they are the only ones who act this way, but a great deal of them do.

However, this was not the case at the Bryan Adams concert. Everyone was so well behaved. My only question to all of us out there...why must we be on our best behavior only for others and not ourselves? Do we as a city not deserve a night as good as the Rock for a Cause? We've proven ourselves to be a great city full of beautiful people...Please, lets do this for our own benefit as well.

posted by Sarah @ 4:52 PM