Died: Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla, 87, retired officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS), Zoroastrian representative on the National Commission for Minorities (NCM), internationally acclaimed writer and poet; in Delhi on September 26, 2024 following delayed stroke related complications and aspirated pneumonia.
The India International Centre in Delhi which was almost like a second home to Daruwalla was where a memorial meeting was convened. He had friends there from every stage of his career — the police, the Prime Minister’s Office, the NCM, as also the writers, artists and thinkers who frequented the venue. And those who spoke or read from his......