Updated On: 25 June, 2017 12:10 PM IST | Mumbai | Anju Maskeri
<p>The lure of alternative professions might be attracting the young and educated Kolis, but they aren't ready to give up on tradition just yet</p>


Khar Danda resident, Hema Chamur's family has been in the business of fishing for as long as she can remember. While the men in the family would head out to sea at the crack of dawn, the women were designated with the task of selling the catch. "When my grandmother would head to the Khar Danda market to sell fish, I'd tag along," she says. The family had its designated spot to conduct business. As a child, she would watch them sort prawns from the mackerel, negotiate prices with customers and, at the end of the day, store the excess fish on a slab of ice in the storage facility at the market. "I had internalised the process before I even knew it," says the 34-year-old.