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A picture in front of the
                                                             A picture in front of the      A picture at the Trafalgar
        Buckingham Palace. You
        could surely do without                               famous Tower Bridge,            Square. We have a
                                 A coin throw at this chalk
        it but your grandmother                              wrongly labelled as the        local rendition in Pakistan
                                    drawing of our flag
         might torment you for                              London Bridge by us desis.       but nothing beats the
                                at the Trafalgar Square. The
        missing the iconic sight    sight of anything                                             original.              A trip to Harrods. It is a
             for years.         Pakistani in a foreign land is                                                            shopping haven for
                                    oddly satisfying.                                                                         everything
                                                                                                                                Arab.



























                                         CAN YOU


                                         GUESS THESE PLACES?

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                                         Trivia II: This is a 22 feet tall Radio Tower called Babel at the Tate
                                         Modern Art Gallery. The tower is made of 800 radio transistors set
                                         on different frequencies playing music all through the day. The art
                                         was inspired by a biblical reference and you can learn more about
                                         its intriguing history on
                                         https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/meireles-babel-t14041.




                                             Trivia  I:  This  is  the  infamous  East  India  Company.  A  regular
                                             tea company that strategically seeped into the subcontinent and
                                             brought  colonialism  to  India  for  over  200  years.  The  company
                                             has  been  reduced  to  a  small  designer  shop  in  London.  The
                                             salespersons are mostly millennials and give you a sheepish smile
                                             as they acknowledge the history of this establishment and what it
                                             means to us.



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