IPL 2022 schedule final, first match will be held in Chennai Two new teams from Ahmedabad and Lucknow have joined it. This time BCCI has decided to go into IPL 2022 with 10 teams. Due to the bad situation of Covid in India, this tournament had to be taken out of India. The last two editions of IPL took place in UAE. It is believed that the schedule of the tournament has been prepared with India as the host.
It is worth noting that this tournament will return to India next year. There are reports that BCCI has finalized the schedule of this tournament to be held next year. That’s how the restaurant came up in Dongri, only five minutes away from the bakery.Preparations have started for the Indian Premier League 2022. “Customers said that we should have seating arrangement too, and we thought, why not?” says Shapur. The Meherbanis then began serving mutton nihari, butter chicken, mutton kheema and paya masala. Soon, customers were asking for accompaniments to the rotis. “They were queueing outside the shop just to buy the rotis!” says Shapur.
When Shapur said he wanted to add tandoor-made rotis to the menu, his father cleared a small space between the retail counter and the bakery from where the younger Meherbani could operate. Roshan Bakery already had a reputation for its bread and pav - still made in wood-fired ovens - and, Farookh decided to add new items to the menu, including freshly-made chapatis four years ago. “Demand had fallen and we didn’t have a lot of products besides bread and some cakes and biscuits,” he says. (Photo: Ganesh Shirshekar)Ī strong desire to keep their legacy alive had driven Farookh to join the family business at a critical juncture. Baker’s Inc: The Meherbanis have helmed Roshan Bakery for close to a century. His son, Shapur, joined the family business three years ago. “The bakery was owned by members of our Irani community, but, over time, we bought out all the partners,” says Farookh, 59, who took over the business 25 years ago. Some of these bakeries are still standing, and of these, the 100-year-old Roshan Bakery is arguably the best known, proudly claiming a stretch of the street outside the Mazgaon Telephone Exchange. The restaurant in Dongri is only a few months old, but the Meherbanis have been in the business of serving delicious, well-priced food for decades, beginning with Farookh’s father Khodayar, who came to Mumbai from Iran in 1957, and became a partner in one of the many bakeries that dotted the Mazgaon-Byculla stretch.
Meherbani senior looks around the restaurant and replies, “Whatever we serve, we want it to be of the best possible quality, and we want to be open to every section of society, whether it’s someone who spends Rs 600 on a full lunch or someone who is looking for a quiet place to sit and can only afford to spend Rs 15 on a cup of tea.” I’m seated at a corner table with Farookh Meherbani and his son Shapur, the owners of this newly-opened eatery and I ask them what, if any, philosophy guides their approach to business. A cop from the police station next door is playing a game on his phone while conversing in a low voice with his companion. A young woman broods over a cup of black Irani tea, fragrant with mint. A gentleman in a starched white shirt is sitting by himself and devouring a small cream pastry. It’s afternoon on a humid Tuesday in Dongri and the downstairs section of Roshan Bakery and Restaurant is filled with a diverse set of customers.