Mumbai, Travel Guide - The Bombay Store

• published: 04 May 2010
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A store with a rich history and a wide variety of Indian handicrafts and goods. (Mumbai, India) Speaker 1: The Bombay Store is a speciality store that exclusively retails only Indian made products. It is a popular store to pick up some very good quality souvenirs, plus, it is also a historical landmark. Freedom Fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak founded the store in nineteen hundred and six. Now, this was when the Swadeshi movement was at its height. This was when all freedom fighting patriots disowned everything that was not made in India. In fact, until recently this store was known as the Bombay Swadeshi Stores. While the store has multiple branches in various cities in India. I am at a signature store, here, in South Bombay. There is a wide range of Indian handicrafts in sandalwood, metal, wood, stone, marble, etcetera. The Bombay Store has handicrafts and exquisite temple carvings for your home decor. These handicrafts are source from across the lenght and breadth of India and Bombay Store focuses mainly on artisans from rural India. Speaker 2. Chetan Pathare: I like the quality of what they carry. I like the variety of what they carry, there prices are reasonable. There are more choices when you come here. Speaker 1: These writing accessories made of handmade paper are also a good buy. The store is also popular for its carpets, rugs and wall hangings in silk, cotton or jute. The soft furnishings available in the Bombay Store are made up of naturally occurring fibers, either pure silk or pure cotton. The Bombay Store also has a wide range of apparel for men and for women. Women especially love these stoles, scarves and shawls available here. Other popular gift options are fashion jewelry, leather products and handbags. The Bombay Store has a wide range of exotic herbal teas from Darjeeling, Nilgiris and from Sikkim. The perfumed candles, aroma therapy oils, incense sticks and herbal cosmetics also sell very well. Speaker 3. Benjan J. Bharucha: We have had a lot of dignitaries visit us in the past and in the present. We have had Sorojni Nidu, El Hara Roswell, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru . Now, we have people like Ustad zakhir Hussain, Juhi Chawala, Vidya Balan. Around thirtty percent of our clients here are still foreigners, the rest are NRIs returning expatriates. A lot of Indians who visit abroad who love to carry something for their relatives and friends who live abroad. Speaker 1: I am Premjit Singh, showing you Bombay.