On
your first dating with a gal will you
risk
taking
your fiancée out for a
meal
or for tea and refreshment and get them served in the midst of a place where are buried the mortal remains of departed and blessed souls? It
may sound morbid and silly;
only a screwball would do such a thing. In India it is a no no - a
sort of taboo
sharing
supper with some body close to your heart in the cemetery.
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| Restaurant in the midst of graves, Ahmedabad, India dailymail.ok |
The
New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
has an unusually strange,
some
times scary ambiance.
This coffee house is built on a site of centuries-old Muslim cemetery.
These
revered departed
humans,
when they were alive and moving around this area,
would have seen the rise and fall of various rulers - Nawobs, Maratha
Peshvas
and
English sahibs.
They
are the silent remainders of our by-gone days.
There are twelve graves inside the eatery and each one is sealed off with grill to avoid disturbing or tripping them and are
said to belong to a 16th CE Sufi saint who lived in this region. The tables are set between the graves, leaving enough space to walk around. The
restaurant is always busy with guests unmindful of the blessed
ones buried there and the owner says that the graves are his lucky
mascot and is is doing good business.One good gesture on the part of the owner is he begins his daily business by praying before the graves and cleaning and placing flowers at the close of the business.
Glad
the restaurant
owner has the blessings
of the Sufi saint.
Had
he run this restaurant in other place - a grave yard of ordinary
people, he and the visitors to the eatery would have been warned like
this:
"We,
who are blissfully buried here and who are
reliving
our past horrible life with our nagging
wives,
don't rest in peace here. We have come to
this
silent world for peace and tranquility. If
disturbed,
we will return, haunt and terrorize you
with
vengeance. So, don't ever disturb our
already
broken heart and bones. The pain
we
had in our past life is yet to come down.''
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