Most of the faces are familiar. They gather every year at 9 a.m. on a hot April morning to garland the statue of a Parsi stalwart of yesteryears. Three times in a year the Bombay Parsee Association (BPA) remembers the Parsi greats of former times whose stone or metal images dot the city landscape. Prior to the annual event, the monuments are spruced up by the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC). BPA president Vispi Dastur narrates the background of the person/s and members of the audience add their mite.
On this April 4 at the birth anniversary of Sir Hormusjee......