President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hosted His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, the leader of the worldwide Dawoodi Bohra community at the Presidential Secretariat on 10 February 2026. In an Instagram post, the president said, “I respectfully conveyed my appreciation for the spiritual leader’s visit to Sri Lanka and engaged in a cordial discussion with him.” View…
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A look at the history of the Dawoodi Bohra community in Sri Lanka through the Masjids they built across centuries.
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Hasan Esufally becomes the first Sri Lankan and the first Bohra to be inducted into the 7 Continents Marathon club
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The Straits Times OCT 15, 2015 When Mrs Moti Mamajiwalla gave birth to her only child, Ruqaiyah, in Bombay in 1936, the event was something of a miracle for her and her 39-year-old trader husband, Khadubhai Mamajiwalla. That was because the 29-year-old housewife had been told by her doctor not to have children as her…
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Sun Daily, Malaysia, 23rd April 2017 FARIDA Kachwala is vacating her family’s cramped home of eighty years, one of thousands receiving modern apartments through a project that hopes to transform Mumbai’s historic Bhendi Bazaar from a dilapidated ghetto into a slick Singapore-like enclave. Six hundred million dollars is being spent to demolish hundreds of rundown…
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The Inauguration of Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah, Nairobi – A Personal Perspective In mid-April, my father and I arrived in Nairobi from Singapore. It was our first trip to the city, although I have been there in transit en route to Mombasa for Ashara when I was a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics (LSE). We…
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Article featured at: Daily Mirror Murtaza Tajbhoy, Chief Strategy Officer of Leo Burnett, Sri Lanka, was awarded the IAA Champion award. He is the first Sri Lankan to win this prestigious accolade. The International Advertising Association (IAA) selected Murtaza as one of five global leaders in the marketing communications industry to receive this honour. Murtaza received…
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23 January, 2018 Straits Times (Singapore) Mrs Marya Shabbir Jasdonwala stares out of the window of her house in southern Mumbai. “I had a dream that I would sit on my couch and look out of the window and see trees. I never thought it would come true,” said the 47-year-old, who runs a travel business. In 2010,…
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1 February 2018, Roar – Life (Sri Lanka online magazine) Asiff Hussein The Bohras are hard to miss: the men are unmistakable in their snow-white robes, luxuriant beards, and caps of gold lace, and the women in their dainty dresses of pastel hues. They stand out everywhere, but not just because of their appearance. They have…