Died: Jamshed (Jimmy) Hormusji Wadia, 95, considered an encyclopedia on timber and forestry, and a relentless opponent who obtained legal redressal against the rent increase levied by the Bombay Port Trust (BPT); on December 19, 2016 in Bombay.
Partner of Bombay’s leading timber firm, B. F. Wadia and Sons, until the age of 95, Wadia continued to go to office and was incapacitated only in the last five months after he suffered a paralytic stroke, states his Perth based elder son Homee. "When he came in to work, he would interact with the senior staff and I had to brief him......