One of the victims of the 2002 riots was the birthplace of the famous Gujarati thali. The restaurant Chandravilas in the walled city, where the first thali was served way back in 1900, was burnt to ashes on February 28, 2002. Rioters had set fire to neighbouring shops and the flames had spread to the […]
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VALENTINE’S DAY : Purti, Who Fell In Love At 13, Waited A Decade For Her Valentine To Commit To Her Love’s labour is not lost for some fortunate souls. Meet the lucky couple Purti Shah, 36, an architect and Ashish Shah, 46, professor of finance who is to celebrate their 17 – years of marriage […]
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Gujarat : 10 years after MADNESS Meet Three Women From Small-Town Gujarat, Who Lost Everything In The 2002 Riots, But Went On To Become The Breadwinners Of Their Families Yasmin Vohra could easily have given up on her dream of becoming an entrepreneur after her small shop of knickknacks and home in Prantij were set […]
Continue readingNarhari Parikh’s Haveli: Bapu’s last link to walled city
GANDHI NIRVAN DAY In January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi’s remains first arrived at Narhari Parikh’s Haveli in Kameshwar-ni-Pol in Khadia before it was immersed in the Sabarmati river. Today, Parikh’s haveli is the only physical link of Bapu that has survived in the walled city. On Monday, to mark Gandhi’s death anniversary, heritage conservationists from Khadia […]
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R-DAY CELEBRATIONS : Freedom Fighter Jagannath Soni To Hoist Tricolour “Danko Vagyo, Utho Ladvaiya Jagjo Shura,” – the signature song of Prabhat Feris during the freedom struggle – will once again reverberate in Khadia area on Republic Day. It will mark new beginnings of the movement to protect the city’s heritage buildings. Ninety-year-old freedom fighter […]
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