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This extract from Homi Bhabha: A life by Bakhtiar Dadabhoy (Rupa Publications, 2023) has been reprinted in Parsiana with permission from the author and the publishers. Dr Homi Bhabha’s father, the Oxford educated Jehangir, started his career in Mysore after joining the judicial service of the state. Later, he was legal adviser to the House of Tatas, serving on the board of directors of many Tata companies. He was a connoisseur of western classical music and painting and had an abiding interest in flowers, trees and gardens, an interest which the young Homi inherited. He had all the advantages of a......