Died: Dr Aban Keki Gharda, 85, director of Gharda Chemicals Limited and its associate companies, and sociologist who was supportive of the rights of domestic help; in Bombay on September 22, 2017.
"We were both PhDs but occasionally I would tease her that some PhDs are more valuable than others,” reminisced Dr Keki Gharda, founder chairman and managing director of Gharda Chemicals Limited, at the condolence meeting in his wife Aban’s memory on September 26. Whilst he is a chemical scientist, she had done a doctorate in sociology with her research culminating in the publication of a book The Domestic Servant......