Ahmedabad International Arts Festival

Throbbing cultural events to mark city's 600th anniversary

Ahmedabad was founded by Sultan Ahmed Shah in 1411. Since then it has been given the sobriquet 'The Manchester of the East' because of the many cotton mills it once had, a place of splendid Mughal architecture or simply the land of Bapu. Prosperous Ahmedabad is the epicentre of Gujarat's diverse and vibrant traditions, religions and communities. On...