Died: Dr Keki Hormusji Gharda, 95, chairman and managing director of Gharda Chemicals Ltd (GCL), chairman of Gharda Medical Foundation and Bai Ratanbai Gharda Hospital Trust; on September 30, 2024 in Bombay.
"Scientist, entrepreneur, innovator, philanthropist,” the four major preoccupations that characterized their founder’s life, were referred to in the GCL and Gharda Pariwar announcement for the memorial meeting in his honor on October 5. "Innovation gives me the most satisfaction,” the trailblazer had acknowledged in an interview with Parsiana (see "The chemistry of Gharda,” July 7, 2011). He had started his chemical enterprise by renting a shed at Vakola which......