Mogul Sanhensa Ahmedshah has created Ahmedabad City in 1572...Now the great city turns 600 years. Gujarat News paper have added special supplement but reality of Ahmedabad city is far behind in all the supplements.

In India only two places Rathyatra of Bhagwan Jaggnath takes place one in Jaggnath puri and other in Ahmedabad. In India only Ahmedabad having 32 Textile mills and so the city called Manchester of India. Only one city in India celebrating Makar Sankranti by flying kites then other city follows. In Nine days Navratri festivals The Dandia Ras Garba mahotsav taking place only in Ahmedbad and this become credit of Ahmedabad.

In the last six centuries city has seen many ups and downs and has developed into a mega-city which is at heart of Gujarat state's development. We Love Ahmedabad.

A Gujarati changed the course of history when he navigated Portuguese explorer
Vasco Da Gama to Calicut. Sea trade between India and the western world flourished linking the two regions in an inseparable way. The rest is history.

Gujarat's ports became launchpads of Indian enterprise. The British signed their first business deal with the Mughals in Ahmedabad. Be it Malik Ayaz who resisted the Portuguese armies securing the state's seas or entrepreneur Ranchhodlal Chhotalal, who, taking advantage of a British legislation allowing export of machinery, set up the first textile mill in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's ties with Europeans have been a roller-coaster ride.

Even Mahatma Ghandhi chose to make Gujarat his first base in India to fight the British. But, it all started with Kanji Malam, a sailor from ship-building town of Mandavi. Vasco Da Gama's crew roped in Malas as pilot to guide them to Calicut from Malindi on the east African coast in 1497. While Vasco was lucky to have Malam by his side, another Portuguese aristocrat and explorer Bartolomeu Dias was not so fortunate. In search of Indian shores, he had to return from the Cape of God Hope in 1488.

Historians have differed over the identity of the sailor who guided Vasco, calling him a Christian, a Muslim and a Gujarati. According to another account, he was the famous Arab navigator Ibn Majid. Some historians suggest Majid could not have been in the vicinity at the time. German author Justus says it was Malam who accompanied Vasco. Italian researcher Sinthia Salvadori too has concluded that it was Malam who showed Vasco the way to India.