The above photographs show Mukhi descendents who either lived in the Mukhi House, or visited it during the Mukhi House Reunion in January, 2013. The latter descendents are shown in color. We hope many more descendents have the opportunity to visit the Mukhi House in the near future so they can help grow this Mukhi House Rilli.

Mukhi House "Ralli". We are descendents of the Mukhi family that built the Mukhi House, and through this website we hope to assemble photographs and memories of those that lived and visited the Mukhi House. Your comments, corrections, and contributions are welcome so we can build a Mukhi House "Ralli" that like a patchwork, captures the complexity of the life and times relevant to the home.

Contact. I am Suresh K. Bhavnani (see upper right hand corner photo) associate professor of biomedical informatics in the Institute for Translational Sciences (ITS) at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and hold a secondary appointment in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, and am an adjunct associate professor at the School of Biomedical Informatics in UT Houston.

My mother Dharam Bhavnani (95), is currently the oldest living person that lived in the Mukhi House. In 1921, she moved into her new home and lived there for the next 26 years. Incredibly, my mother and her two living sisters (Indru and Koshu) and brother (Jagdish) have vivid memories of growing up in the house, many of which have inspired this website. My mother has more than 50 photographs inside and around the Mukhi House in addition to surrounding locations. Many of these photographs have been useful for the conservation of the Mukhi House, and are available at the Mukhi House page on Facebook.

While many Indians grow up listening to Hindu mythologies from their grandparents, the Mukhi House was our mythology. As children growing up in India, we imagined a palatial home in Sindh with spatious marble courtyards, that appeared to be forever frozen in a 2-dimensional sepia-toned past. Walking into the restored Mukhi House in 2013 enabled us to directly confront this mythology -- this website is an attempt to integrate our oral and visual mythology, with the concrete experience of immersion in the Mukhi House.

Please share your photographs and stories by contacting me at: skbhavnani "at" gmail "dot" com