Haji Mohammed Allarakha Shivji was born on 13 December 1878 in
Bombay to a
Khoja Ismaili businessman. He was a native of
Kutch. He studied Gujarati initially at home, and later studied up to the sixth grade at Fort Highschool in Bombay. After 1895, he studied
Hindi, English and
Marathi. To bring magazine like
The Strand Magazine in Gujarati, he founded
Visami Sadi (The Twentieth Century), a pictorial periodical in 1914 and published it from 1916 to 1920. He sold three family mansions and invested around Rs 15 million for the magazine. It became popular but he never recovered any money from it. He was a connoisseur of art. He died in an accident in Bombay on 21 January 1921. ==Works==