Bohra Kids of Bandra Bazar Road

Bohra Kids of Bandra Bazar Road, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

Bohra kids are studious, well disciplined and with a very peace loving demeanor just like their elders, they dont mix around much..keep to their community and their school books

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The word Bohra itself is derived from the Gujarati word Vehwahar, which is interpreted as "trading".


The Bohra elders who are are shop owners and residents of Bandra Bazar Road go about their work, they are born businessmen.
You wont ever find them in street brawls or ever raising their voice.
Most of the fame shops, hardware and paint shops belong to them.
The undergarments and diaper and kids stuff shop too is owned by a young Bohra.
The oasis of their spirituality is the Badri Mosque at Bandra Bazar Road.

I too have done Matam within the Badri Mosque, a few years back to the chant of Ya Hussain on the birthday of His Holiness Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin..

I was invited there by Akbar Bhai the owner of Something Special and Cheap Jack on Hill Road.
Akbar Bhai has his family house at Bandra Bazar Road and we have been friends since the 80's
The Bohras of Bandra add to the dignity and grace of this nice area , peacful and calm Bandra Bazar Road.
Thanks to the local dynamic Municipal corporator of this area, Rahebar Khan who under his supervision changed all the old crumbling drainage pipes this are did not get flooded as it usually did..
Normally during the early heavy rains you would have to come here in a motor boat..now you can hire the local rickshah.

Yet a lot has to be done as the Bandra Municipal Market at Bandra Bazar Road is the ugliest filthiest market among all the markets of Mumbai.

And our political honchos only come to riase our national flag during Independence day or to beg for votes during the elections.

But if ever Ms Sonia Gandhiji the head of Congress I was to pay a surprise visit here you can believe me, it would be transformed into Napien Sea Road in just a few hours before her arrival.

Both the MP and the local MLA hail from the finer side of Bandra..Pali Hill and Joggers Park respectively.

Rahebar Khan has grown up in Bandra Bazar Road and stays in the same vicinity.


About Dawoodi Bohras on Wikpedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoodi_Bohra