In her article "Fighting the plague” (Parsiana, May 7-20, 2023) Gool Ardeshir has written about some old correspondence she found in her maternal great-grandfather Dinsha Manekjee Kalapesi’s desk. She refers to a letter "from a gentleman by the name of N. M. Kharegat” addressed to Dr Rustom Kalapesi in August 1901. That gentleman would have been Nusserwanji Manekji Kharegat, the grandfather of my grandfather Erach Nanabhai Kharegat.
Dr Rustom Kalapesi
Nusserwanji’s son, Nanabhai Nusserwanji Kharegat, died of the plague in 1899, leaving behind nine young children, of whom my grandfather was the eldest. Nanabhai had heard that a colleague of hi s......