Outstanding Bombayites

The Greater Bombay Co-operative Bank Limited in its wall calendar for 2006 has named the following 12 individuals, five of whom are Parsis as the "outstanding citizens of Bombay:” Dadabhai Naoroji (patriot, freedom fighter), Mahadev Govind Ranade, (patriot, social reformer), William Stevens (architect who designed and built Victoria Terminus), Rudyard Kipling (writer, Nobel Laureate), Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata (visionary, industrialist, nationalist), Madame Cama (freedom fighter), Jaggan­nath Shankarshett (Father of Bombay city), Pherozeshah Mehta (nationalist), William Haffkine (scientist, inventor of plague vaccine), V. M. Tarkunde (political activist), Homi J. Bhabha (scientist), Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar (playback singer).

Dr P. D. SUNAVALA