Jewellery shops
During my last visit to Dhaka in March, exactly on 23rd March 2009, I found myself in a Jewellery shop by chance selling gold and diamond articles in a Gulshan shopping enclave.
A very nice shop it was indeed and owned by a very decent merchant from Gujarat. I could have never imagined that there existed such a posh jewellery shop in Dhaka. I have never seen such a shop anywhere in Europe, for that matter. Gold and diamond on display in that shop would be worth hundreds and thousands of dollars. And there were about two dozen such shops around and I learnt that all were owned and managed by merchants from Gujarat, India. Still I cannot figure out how they bring such expensive goods to Bangladesh and then again how can they transfer their sales money and profit back to India?
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