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Malabar Hill, the world renowned vegetarian ghetto of Mumbai

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Given that the vegetarian groups such as Jains are also extremely wealthy, the campaign for a meat-free Mumbai is also more pronounced.   Nowhere is this more visible than in the transformation of Malabar Hill, which boasts of one of the most expensive real estates in the world, into a vegetarian ghetto.
An aerial view of the Malabar Hill, the spearhead
of 
India’s vegetarian movement. Wiki image

Staff correspondent, September 8, 2015

The BMC’s order of banning meat for four days during a Jain festival does not come as a surprise. Mumbai has in recent decades split up into exclusive religious and caste groups, which are bent on expanding their spheres of influence.

Given that the vegetarian groups such as Jains are also extremely wealthy, the campaign for a meat-free Mumbai is also more pronounced.

Nowhere is this more visible than in the transformation of Malabar Hill, which boasts of one of the most expensive real estates in the world, into a vegetarian ghetto.

Once a cosmopolitan hub of Parsis, Bohras, Hindus and Catholics, Malabar Hill is now dominated by rich businessmen from the vegetarian groups.

Over the years they have abolished meat from residences, shops and restaurants, a phenomenon that has been noted by media reports both Indianand International.

Many of Malabar Hill's residential societies have made vegetarian diet mandatory. A flat in a purely vegetarian society costs more than a flat in a mixed apartment, so builders are also drawn to them.

All local businesses from MNCs such as Dominos and Starbucks to grocery shops have been cleansed of meat and made to feature only an all-vegetarian fare.


What happens if you don’t fall in line, like noted hotelier Sanjay Narang, who set up a non-vegetarian restaurant here? His customers were allegedly targeted, nuts and nails were thrown upon them, and their cars were left with scratch marks.

The harassment allegedly continued till Narang decide to shut down the restaurant.

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