MALAD

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'Malad' (Marathi:मालाड) is a suburb of Mumbai, India. It is also the name of the railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway (India) railway line, located in the Malad suburb.

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History

Demographics

Localities

Beaches

History

In 1915, the St Anne's High School was established at Orlem. In 1934, Bombay Talkies, the first movie company to be founded in India, was established in Malad by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani.In 1955 ST.Joseph's School was established
Originally, much of the land in the west was owned by East Indian families and was used primarily for agriculture. In the 1970s many of them sold their lands to real estate developers.
There is a market called Somwar Bazaar which is located at Somwar Bazaar area itself. This bazaar is active only on Monday's and the area is named after this bazaar. People from various parts of Maharashtra come here to sell their unique products.
St.Anne's High School is one of the best school's in Malad. St.Anne's has a very big playground and also a church which is known as the Orlem church. Also an interesting fact is Orlem is one of highly Catholic dominated area in Mumbai. There are other good schools as well like St.Joseph's and St.Carmel girl's school, Children's Academy in the East, Fatima Devi also in the East.
Malvani is an area which is Muslim dominated. This was the worst hit area 92-93 riots. It also has a church which is a bus stop known as the Malvani Church Stop.
There are 3 more good areas which are quiet and mostly the people living in these areas are Maharashtrians, Gujarati's and Marwadi's. The 3 areas are Mamlatdar Wadi, Liberty Garden, Ramchandralane. Near the post office at Ramchandralane there is SNDT womens college. This college is the best place for females of middle class to study. It offers various courses in various streams thereby trying to educate as many females as possible. There are regular events at this college and the ground is often leased out for marriages and parties.

Demographics

Apart from the original Maharashtrian settlers, the suburb has a considerable population of Catholics, Gujaratis, South Indians, Marwaris and Punjabis. Real estate in the west is more expensive than in the east.

Localities

Some of the major localities in Malad (West) are Orlem (originally called Valnai in Marathi), Evershine Nagar and Palm Court Complex.
Sunder Nagar is a locality in Malad that lies along the west side of Swami Vivekananda Road. The area was built up in the 1970s and is primarily composed of many housing complexes, typically 2 bedroom apartments. There are 3 schools, (Umedbhai Patel English School,Utkarsh Mandir and S. Radhakrishnan Vidyalaya), 1 college (Prahldrai Dalmia's Lions College) and a large garden in the limited area. The housing blocks are typically named alphabetically starting from A up to V. It borders Mandlik Nagar on the North and some defunct factories on the south.

Beaches

The Aksa, Erangal and Marve beaches are within accessible distance from Malad.

★ Aksa Beach

★ Dana Paani

★ Erangal Beach

★ Madh Island & Madh Fort

★ Manori Beach

★ Marve Beach - Ferry Service to Manori