"We fondly remember (senior corporate executive and nonexecutive director on the board of Colgate Palmolive India Limited) Jamshed Setna as a humble, approachable leader… always open to sharing the wealth of his experience garnered during his long and illustrious career with some of India’s most reputed companies,” noted the company’s managing director Ram Raghavan. "Successive generations of the Colgate leadership team have immensely benefited from this association and will remain eternally grateful,” he added.
Clockwise from top: Ram Raghavan and Fareeda Setna with hearse;
Jamshed Setna; Xerxes Dastur and Armaity Tirandaz
He was speaking at a function to commemorate Setna’s second death anniversary by donating a Tata Winger BSVI high roofed hearse to the Tower of Silence on February 12, 2021. The managing director added that Setna "not just believed there was a time and place for everything, he adopted that belief.” Commending his meticulousness, he added that the corporate executive was "precise and organized. As a chartered accountant, these traits served him well. He epitomized those words in every walk of life, be it ethics, beliefs, at work, or his relationship and interactions with his family and friends.”
Present on the occasion were Setna’s widow Fareeda, who received the keys to the hearse from Raghavan and handed them over to Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) chairman Armaity Tirandaz. Also present were BPP trustee Xerxes Dastur, and senior executives from Colgate: finance director M. S. Jacob, legal director Surendra Sharma and Prakash Makhija from administration.
Following refreshments and a vote of thanks from BPP deputy chief executive officer Shehnaaz Khambatta at Doongerwadi’s Pandey Pavilion, the donors left with "oxygen giving house plants instead of flower bouquets,” noted Doongerwadi manager Vistaspar Mehta, who sent Parsiana a note on the event.