Mumbai February 02, 2014: For over a month now, Fakir Mohamed has been house-hunting in Bandra (W), but he is unable to buy a flat when he likes one. “I never thought that my own city, Mumbai, and especially Bandra, which I call the most cosmopolitan area in the city, would shut its doors on me.” For a Muslim, finding a home outside a Muslim ghetto is a real problem in the city. Seven years ago, Zafar Sareshwala, a businessman from Ahmedabad who had settled in England after the 2002 riots, moved to the city and underwent a similar experience. “I must have seen more than a dozen flats and everywhere I was told that they were not for Muslims,” says he. A veteran broker who took TOI reporters around a 2-BHK sea-facing flat in Pali Naka, Bandra, says he no longer takes prospective buyers to societies which might discriminate against Muslims. “They take potential clients to areas that have been unofficially earmarked for Muslims,” says Rizvi. “Millat Nagar near Lokhandwala, pockets in Bandra (west), Jogeshwari, [and outside the city] Mira Road, Kalyan, Mumbra and Bhiwandi have come up as Muslim areas.” An expansion adding a new idol and meditation area is under way. The new area will open near the end of 2014. The temple provides the community with a place to worship, socialize and share knowledge, Desai said.. As per age-old tradition, saints from India visit the temple on Mahashivaratri. The 110-year-old Milanbaba from KamrupKamaksha has already arrived to Pashupatinath to observe the Mahashivaratri. Cleanliness of the temple and its premises, Bagmatiriver and paintings have been completed. Arrival of saints and temporary installation of Vaishnawidevi Temple at Banakali are the central attractions for the devotees visiting the temple on Mahashivaratri. The temple will be open for the public for homage and pooja on shivaratri. This year´s Mahashivatri which is observed with much fanfare by the Hindus as the birthday of Lord Shiva falls on February 27, Thursday.