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"Mahatmaji’s spectacles have arrived this morning,” Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, secretary to Mohandas Gandhi (pictured) wrote to Baliwalla and Homi (BAH), opticians. "He is wearing them and says that as far as he can judge at present, they are quite alright,” the missive continues. A report in The Times of India (TOI) of April 9, 2017 traces the history of the store from 1899 when the first shop was opened in Kalbadevi by brothers Naoroji and Pirojsha Baliwalla. Naoroji would make the lenses in his glass grinding workshop while Pirojsha would hand craft the gold frames and fit the lenses. "Glass......



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