Parsis as club presidents

Senior advocate Jimmy Pochkhanawalla was unanimously elected president of the prestigious 135-year-old The Club Mahabaleshwar, with the highest votes secured in the history of the Club, notes a press release. With this achievement, the heads of almost all the prestigious clubs in and around Bombay are Parsi Zoroastrians. Selvel proprietor Kekoo Nicholson is president of the Cricket Club of India (CCI), former Tata director and community activist Homi Khusrokhan of the Willingdon Sports Club, solicitor Darius Udwadia of Bombay Gymkhana, company director Minoo Pardiwalla of Radio Club and chartered accountant Xerxes Dastur of Ripon Club. Also on the managing committee of the CCI are businessmen Naval Pandole and Darayus Mehta as well as Noel Tata of Trent who has been nominated to the board; psychologist Dr Sonya Mehta heads the Rotary Club of Bombay.

Jimmy Pochkhanawalla: club president

It seems that where club leadership is concerned, people still feel that Parsis best preserve the traditions of old and hallowed institutions.
Pochkhanawalla was also appointed as independent director on the board of the Press Trust of India (PTI) Limited, New Delhi. Chairman of the PTI remains Hormusji Cama, managing director of The Bombay Samachar.