The beautiful Ashar Estate

Five years ago, when I first visited Shreenagar, I liked the locality for its scenic beauty. The place was so green with full of trees and it existed alongside a beautiful green mountainous forest. It was an old township with mostly two storied old bungalows that housed four families and five story buildings with no lifts. The housing construction boom in Thane, at that time, revolved around Godbunder and Pokhran Road 2. Shreenagar was out of consideration for any new construction projects as there was no vacant plots in the area available except for a site or two. Ashar Estate was built on such a vacant plot. Shreenagar's scenic beauty compounded with that of Ashar Estate makes this a perfect place to live. The other day, I had wandered about our premises and captured some exquisite snaps.

Many residents have planted useful plants in our garden!

The sparrows are back!!

The grand entrance to Shreenagar from Thane, just in front of Ashar Estae. I love that banyan tree.

Billabong High International School shares common wall with Ashar Estate

Our Club House. Look at the mountain far behind!!

The politics of Lily (ലില്ലിയുടെ രാഷ്ട്രീയം)

Keralites are famous (notorious rather) for their political awareness and affiliations, which contribute to their high social, literary and moral aspects today. So, when a Lily bloomed in a Kerala home, it had all the beauties and aesthetic elegance expected of Kerala. And isn't it quite natural when the flowers died, they took shapes of fists in the air similar to the fists of Keralites on a strike? Inquilaab Zindabad!

Lily Bloom (ലില്ലി)

It is a wonderful sight when the Lily in our flat blooms. I don't know why our Lily blooms very rarely, but when it does the flowers are in abundance.

Vadam Vali (വടംവലി മത്സരം)

It was a brilliant idea and the credit must go to Ms. Beena Prince, when she suggested to conduct a 'vadam vali' competition as part of the Onam 2008 celebrations at Ashar Estate. The men folk took it so casually that it required reinforcement to win the match!

Ashar Malayalee Association

AMA stands for Ashar Estate Malayali Association.

We are a small group of Malayalees (Keralites) residing at Ashar Estate in Thane city, a prominent suburb of Mumbai(Bombay). Ashar Estate is one of the major co-operative housing societies in Thane, where a large number of people belonging to various Indian communities and states live.

We believe that our initiatives to spread goodness and harmony among people, share useful resources and ideas will benefit the members and the website visitors equally.

We conduct periodical picnics, tours and expeditions to various exotic, popular and unknown places in India. You can expect a lot of travelogues, place profiles, travel trivias and photo features that you may not find elsewhere in the web.

Some of our members are exceptional cooks specialized in Kerala and other cusines. We will feature recipes with tips and tricks that may be useful to you.

Thane is one of the most beautiful places in India and we are proud of being residents of this city. You can expect stories, place profiles and photo features of Thane .

Our educational inititatives include Linguistic and Techonology services and we conduct short courses on various subjects. You may find these services useful.

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AMA Online Team