• 2 days ago
COVID-19 hit many businesses hard globally and Link Tailors, a men’s tailoring shop in Meena Bazaar, was no different. The story behind the small two-storey shop in Bur Dubai, however, is the story of a big family for whom UAE has been home for more than 45 years.

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00:00How did you meet each other?
00:04We met each other on a ship.
00:08I came on a plane.
00:10I didn't have a visa.
00:13Were you in Bombay?
00:14Yes, we were in Bombay.
00:16We came to Bombay in 1972.
00:18We were working there.
00:19He was working in a shop there.
00:21I was working there.
00:23We knew each other.
00:26I had worked in Thailand.
00:28He had worked there.
00:29I had worked in Thailand.
00:31He had worked in Bombay.
00:33He had a shop there.
00:35I had worked in Bombay.
00:37He had a job in DC.
00:42He had a shop there.
00:46I had a job in Malnad.
00:48We had been working there for 13 years.
00:57We had a shop there.
00:59We have a new shop now.
01:01You had a shop there for 25 years?
01:02Yes.
01:0325 years.
01:11We had work then.
01:13We had less work then.
01:15Now we have more work.
01:18We had a shop there.
01:21We had a shop there.
01:23We only did local work.
01:25We didn't do women's work.
01:28We didn't know about women's work.
01:31We didn't start it.
01:38We decided to run this renovation shop,
01:42and take another shop and develop this area also.
01:45We started to develop, but by that time, you got corona, so it is some difficult time actually
01:51I reached to this place.
01:53I have confidence to develop this shop, but now the situation is a little bad, that's
01:57the only problem.
01:58But it will pick up, definitely it will pick up.
02:00It will take some time, but it will pick up.
02:02Maybe we are expecting now by September.

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