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Mumbai Traffic Junction Quietly Supervised By 260-Year-Old Businessman

In Mumbai’s Byculla area, under the Byculla Bridge, a tall cast-iron statue stands at the traffic junction. It is popularly known as Khada Parsi Statue. It is the statue of Seth Cursetjee Manockjee (1763-1845), a Parsi businessman and philanthropist. The statue was commissioned…