“This market is full of trust”, Ashok Tejnani beams with pride. It is this statement by the partner at Chaturdas Tikamdas & Sons Jewellers, who has spent more than 30 years at his long-established shop at Zaveri Bazaar that explains why even in this afternoon sun, this maze-like market housing big and small jewellery stores were bustling with crowds, so imagine Akshaya Tritiya or Diwali.  

Reportedly, over 60 per cent of all the gold trading in the country happens in this market. For ages, Zaveri Bazaar’s iconic ‘Dharam Kanta’ or the weighing scale for the old bullion trade has carried the trustworthy tag all around the country for assessing the purity of precious metals. Trust is surely what defines Zaveri Bazaar.