Died: Jehangir Shapurji Bhownagary, 83, erstwhile joint secretary to India’s ministry of information and broadcasting, and chief advisor (films) to the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, on April 11, 2004 in Paris.
"Rarely have I known someone so richly endowed. His catholicity of interests, his varied talents, his subtle sense of humor and his exuberantly cosmopolitan character placed him several notches above his peers,” wrote Dileep Padgaonkar in his column in the Sunday Times of India of May 2, 2004, having enjoyed Bhownagary’s hospitality on umpteen occasions in Paris when they would invariably discuss UNESCO which Bhownagary had served......