With staying-at-home becoming the new normal and most Indian jewelry stores shut due to a nationwide lockdown, Mamta Vinay Gokarn is facing a dilemma: how to get a hold of gold on the second-most auspicious day in the Hindu calendar to buy the metal.
Purchases of valuables including bullion on Akshaya Tritiya, which falls on April 26 this year, is considered to bring luck and prosperity by the nation’s majority Hindu population.
Gokarn, who lives in the western Indian city of Pune, has for the past decade bought gold bars on key auspicious days mainly from her local jeweler. “This Sunday I am wondering how to buy gold," she said by phone. “Buying online is not an option for me as it is too risky to trust and I don’t know how the delivery