Bombay

 BY: ABDUR RAZZAQ THAPLAWALA

The World Memon Organization (WMO) had organized its 5^th Annual General Meeting at Mumbai from 25^th to 28^th March, 2005. I decided to take this opportunity to visit my birth place. Many persons who were attending the conference of World Memon Organization (WMO) had applied for visa to visit Bantva but no visa was granted to them. As I had applied for visa to Rajkot, Junagadh and Bantva in December, 2004, I was granted the visa of Rajkot, Junagadh and Bantva in addition to Mumbai.I therefore, decided to leave for India on 21^st March, 2005 – a few days earlier for Mumbai Conference. In Mumbai, I had requested a very senior elder of our community – Bha Adam Noor to kindly arrange for my visit to Junagadh & Bantva. I left Karachi by PIA  Flight No. 274 at 9:00 A.M. and reached Mumbai Airport at 11:00 A.M. (India time). My friend had sent a person to receive me at the Airport. I took a taxi to the office of The Memon Educational & Welfare Society. As requested earlier, they had booked a flight living for Rajkot at 7:00 P.M. that very evening.

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