Our story
A Konkan legacy, carried forward
How one household from a small village of Waghivare became a family of multiple talents — and why we still call it home.
Since 1900s
The timeline
Dates and details are placeholders — family historians will replace them with the record.
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1900s
A house in Waghivare
The first Rumani household we can trace, farming and herding in Waghivare, humble beginning.
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1930s
The road to Bombay
Ali Rumani (a.k.a. Ali Sheth) moved to Bombay; Alishan Restaurant, first family business open.
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1970s
Across the Arabian Sea
A generation heads to the Gulf. Building lives and future for their own families.
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2000s
A family across countries
Dispersed across multiple countries — cousins grow up continents apart but return for every wedding.
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2026
Alishaan 2.0
This website: one place for our story, our talent and a tree that every member can help keep alive.
Where we come from
Three places, one family
Waghivare
The ancestral village — the house, the well, and the mosque the family still returns to.
Bombay
The magical city, Bombay — cements the roots of the next generation.
Chiplun
The market town on the Vashishti river that connected the villages to the wider world.
Our marks
The seal mark
The seal, the monogram and the name
The seal’s four interlocking flourishes gather around a single R — many branches, one root.
The monogram R stands alone on small things; the full “The Rumanis” signature carries the name into the world.
“Alishaan” — magnificent — was how Ali Sheth described it. Alishaan 2.0 is our promise to keep it so.
The founder
The person behind Alishaan 2.0
The Rumanis began as a question Asif Rumani kept returning to: how do you keep a family that now lives across cities and continents feeling like one household?
His answer was to build it a home. Asif created The Rumanis — the name, the marks and this site — as one place where the family tree, the photographs and the talents of every generation live together, and where anyone who carries the name can add what they know.
The original restaurant is named “Alishaan” — magnificent, a home for a large many relatives and known ones. Alishaan 2.0 is Asif’s name for this new home: not a building this time, but the same open door.
— Asif Rumani
Founder, The Rumanis
