Graffiti in Oil Shop : Lahore Pakistan

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What is graffiti? Graffiti is derived from the Italian word graffito means 'scratch' and it has a long history. 

Yesterday I went to an oil shop almost three kilometers away from my house, to buy hair oil. Actually, in my house, there is an area at the entrance reserved for a small fountain and raw land for the plantation. My mother has an interest in planting, so she always asks to gardener for new plants and vegetable seeds. In the corner, there is a lemon plant which is in every summer season overflowed with the fruit. This time it is filled with lemons than normal routine. So my mother thought, why don't we make lemon ACHAR as we have enough quantity of lemons, otherwise it will get wasted. So she sent me to the bazaar for buying oil to put into the Lemon Achar. There i found this graffiti on a wall. So my investigation started.









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