MUMBAI: An old man wearing the kippah skullcap paced frantically around the Magen David Synagogue in Byculla's Jewish compound on a muggy evening last week. He approached a policeman and pointed towards the locked Nagpada Gate on the compound's southern wall asking for it to be opened. But the watchman who had the keys had already left.
Israeli professor Shaul Sapir, who is nearing 70, was dismayed as he returned to the group of people he was leading as part of a heritage tour organised by the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. The now-shut gate was a shortcut to Sapir's home or what he used to call home until 60 years ago.
