“Mhow’s messiah”

I have read your obituary on Behram Masani titled "Mhow’s messiah,” (In Memoriam, Parsiana, September 21, 2010). Masani and I were students of philosophy, he an Elphinstonian reading for his MA, I an undergraduate at Wilson College, but we met every Monday evening to attend the lectures of Prof J. C. P. d’Andrade, the doyen of Bombay’s philosophers, on Francis Herbert Brad­ley’s Appearance and Reality. We were also members of the Bombay Philosophical Society where, as its honorary secretary, Masani passed amusing votes of thanks. He was a competent philosopher.

Masani was a handsome young man, tall with head always held high, a rather nonchalant manner and a dreamy look. I was happy to renew our friendship after many years when he and his wife came to stay in Bombay for medical treatment.

SHERYAR OOKERJEE