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For Karachi’s tiny Silawat community, winters are a festival of sweet ‘churma’

  • Churma, made of flour, nuts, sugar and desi ghee, requires several chefs to labor a whole day and night
  • The Silawat Muslim community hails from Rajasthan in India, is traditionally associated with stonemasonry
By NAIMAT KHAN ·

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