Karachi Beach Radio, Black River, Black Sea, 2020,
Audio Recording (5:14 min)
Text and Voice: Maria Patel, Translated from Urdu to English by Yaminay Chaudhri and Maria Patel, Mixing: KBR

“Since childhood, we had heard that Karachi was constructed around two rivers. The Lyari river and the Malir river“, begins the first of three pieces around personal memories and reflections on Karachi waters.

Black River, Black Sea is a Karachi Beach Radio album created by Maria Patel, one of the KBR guests in the Seaview summer residency 2019.

Maria Patel is a Karachi based writer and storyteller and has collaborated with various directors, photographers, cinematographers and artists in Pakistan.