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Around Jalan Masjid India

Across from Coliseum Theatre is an alleyway, which leads from Jalan TAR across Lorong TAR to Jalan Masjid India. It is lined with barber shops, cobblers, tailors and stalls selling scarves. Lorong TAR is a pedestrian mall which is transformed into a street market every Saturday evening.

This thriving neighbourhood around the Mosque is often referred to as "Little India" due to its numerous wholesale and retail Indian traders. This area is a recent development from the 1960s. Prior to this, Lorong TAR was known as Batu Lane, which was the heart of an infamous red-light district comprising a maze of squatter shacks nicknamed Belakang Mati (Dead End). Malayan and Selangor Mansions were built in the neighbourhood to accommodate the squatters when they were cleared out in the mid-1960s.

Today, Jalan Masjid India has Indian shops selling perfumes, spices, incense, saris, brassware and jewellery, and Malay shops specializing in batik, songkok (headgear for men), prayer mats and robes. The street lively, with a heady mixture of colour, aroma and sounds. There are flower vendors, food and souvenir stalls, buskers and blind musicians. Among the more interesting vendors are the Malay medicine men plying jamu (herbal concoctions) and brews that allegedly can cure all ailments. Budget hotels and restaurants, serving Indian and Malay food, abound in this area.

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