Art by Rollie Mukherjee Saira comes from a deeply orthodox Dawoodi Bohra family. Her father is a highly successful businessman and occupies an important role in the community. She has had an opportunity to study abroad and is currently in transition, happy to be able to decide on her future. He is a patron of Saifee Mahal, the seat of the Syedna, the community’s powerful religious head, and has been close to the previous Syedna. She lives in a posh South Mumbai neighborhood. After her MBA from an Australian university, she has started working with a multinational bank in Mumbai. I went wherever there was a story, and meeting Saira too was a result of that principle. We met in a coffee shop in Colaba Causeway. She had told me she wanted to shop and then we would head back home. “It’s so uncomfortable to talk about this, I had…

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