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What is beyond doubt, though, is the graves of some Jewish men and women in the Cutchi Memon Graveyard at the fag end of Barnes Street. The Jewish gravesite is to the right of the entrance to the cemetery and form a kind of a rectangle covered with ungainly shrubbery. A few are more than a century old, as Babu Bhai and Ghulam Ali, two amiable and helpful gravediggers claim, and two or three were dug in the first half of the 20th century.

The headstone on one grave has the deceased's info written in English and in, perhaps, Hebrew. But the writing is so faded that it is difficult to make sense of the actual text. Also, these graves are fast disappearing into the soil. “Jews used to come here from that side of the wall,” says Babu Bhai pointing towards the boundary wall on the right of the Cutchi Memon Graveyard. “That entrance has now been cemented. There was this old Jewish lady who was alive till last year. I think it was in Ramaswamy area that she lives or lived,”.

[Source: Karachi Legacies of Empires by Peerzada Salman]

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