Vintage memory

This is a rare photograph of my paternal grandfather Sorabji Toti (Balsara) and the family enjoying a picnic outside the bungalow of advocate Nusserwanji Vakil at Tithal Village, Valsad, Gujarat in the mid-1930s. From right: The patriarch of the family, Sorabji Toti, his wife Dhunmai, children Hilla, Tehmina, Baman, Bahadur, Jimi, Dolly, Jal and Dina. While Sorabji enjoys his cognac, the rest of the family has toddy with fresh seek kababs and gathyas. This was one of the exhibits at the "Flame of the Faith” celebration in Singapore in May 2004.

RASHNA ARDESHER