{"id":3639,"date":"2003-10-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/27\/2003-10-27-vegetarians-only-the-unwritten-rule-in-mumbai-real-estate\/"},"modified":"2003-10-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-27T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-27-vegetarians-only-the-unwritten-rule-in-mumbai-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/27\/2003-10-27-vegetarians-only-the-unwritten-rule-in-mumbai-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians Only: The Unwritten Rule in Mumbai Real Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/news\/archive\/2003\/10\/22\/financial0950EDT0049.DTL\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>MUMBAI, INDIA, October 22, 2003: Amar Khamkar thought he had found the perfect apartment in Mumbai when the agent asked him &#8220;Is your family vegetarian?&#8221; &#8220;I was shocked,&#8221; said Mr. Khamkar, &#8220;What did that matter?&#8221; Quite a lot, the agent said, the building was reserved for vegetarians. A number of buildings, both old and new, in the city are unofficially going vegetarian. Most of Indians don&#8217;t eat beef but mutton, chicken and fish are eaten in many parts of India. In Mumbai, seafood is a favorite, particularly a pungent dried fish known as Bombay Duck. However, there is an influential minority of prosperous traders, diamond merchants and property developers, originally from Gujarat. They are often willing to pay a premium for an environment in harmony with their religious beliefs and no-meat lifestyle. &#8220;There&#8217;s an excellent market for vegetarian buildings,&#8221; says Sunil Bajaj, a Bombay broker. &#8220;It&#8217;s as simple as having a non-smoking area.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceMUMBAI, INDIA, October 22, 2003: Amar Khamkar thought he had found the perfect apartment in Mumbai when the agent asked,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}