Oral history · 1 September 2026
The chess players of Taxali
An evening with the men who have played at the same chai stall for forty years, and what they remember of the music market.

Placeholder text. This piece will be written from the recordings Ghazi and the team made on their nights in Androon Lahore.
Every oral history piece follows the same shape: who we sat with, where, what they told us, and the one line we could not stop thinking about on the walk home.










