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Item Open Access Bohra Tradition Of Sharing Food(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2018) Agrawal, Anandita; Pandya, Vishvajit; Mazumdar, MadhumitaWithin Islamic culture, within the Fatemi texts there is a great emphasis on sharing food because it is a means by which one can do good, a means by which one can serve the creator and the creator is best served when one serve his creation. According to the religious leaders of the Bohra Community if you feed one person, it is equal to feeding a group of people and then there are auspicious days when it is customary, mandatory that you participate in feeding other people and in all capacity not just the act of feeding, if you help in the preparation of food, if you help in the growing of food, if you help in the transportation of food, in the distribution of food, even if you give someone who is thirsty a glass of water even for that, there are a host of spiritual rewards, so food sharing is very important in Bohra culture and it is part of who they are. On this philosophy the religious leader of Dawoodi Bohra Community took an initiative to take care of the basic nutritional needs of every member of the community on a daily basis by providing wholesome meals cooked in well managed hygienic kitchens. This initiative was named as Faiz al Mawaid al Burhaniyah that translates as the nourishment of the Burhani Platter, Faiz in this context means the satisfaction that you gain, the fulfillment that you gain, Mawaid is the plural of Maidat which means a filled platter and Burhaniyah is attributed to the 52nd Dai, His Holiness Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin, they have established this so that each member of the community gets the reward of nourishing other people, feeding other people. Also the food culture in the community highlights that how they all are similar on so many aspects.Item Open Access In Search of Buddhist Gujarat between Rhetoric and Reality(Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, 2018) Sheth, Aarsh; Singh, Saurabh; Mazumdar, Madhumita; Pandya, VishvajitIt is for the last few years that the state of Gujarat is suddenly being promoted internationally as a Buddhist heritage destination. Several Buddhist heritage sites were identified at an international seminar in the year 2010 as tourist and pilgrim destinations. In a high profile promotional blitz that included a revamped Gujarat Tourism website, brochures and a much popular tourism promotional film featuring the celebrity actor Amitabh Bachchan, the Gujarat government under the then Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi claimed that Buddhism had as much a presence in Gujarat as that in Bihar. This project was inspired by the compelling power of this tourism ad campaign and sought to follow the Buddhist heritage trail in Gujarat and see how these sites were perceived by followers of Buddhism on the one hand and by locals on the other. The objective was to understand how heritage promotion initiatives from the state resonated in actual social contexts and how tourism promotion rhetoric matched up with the reality on the ground. We went on a quest to discover this new dimension of Gujarat. We visited some of the sites only to realize that there is actually no movement in terms of the development of any of the presented sites as tourist destinations since the year 2010. Employing ethnographic methods and together with historical, political and sociological literature, we tried to understand the reality of Buddhist tourism in Gujarat, not as part of a broader religious or historical movement but rather as an “Invented tradition” created and promoted by the imperatives of tourism and politics.