Two granddaughters reminisce about their active 101-year-old grandmother Coomi Munshi, her sense of fun, nurturing ways and the values they imbibed from her
Farah Mahrukh Coomi Shroff and Veeda Shroff
Our wonderful Granny, Coomi Nariman Munshi, was born on April 10, 1910 in Bharuch. She was the eldest of 12 children and spent much of her childhood raising her siblings. When she grew up she was determined to have a small family and educate herself and all the kids. Though very bright, she had been forced to stay home to help with child raising and she regretted not being the doctor she had always aspired to become.
In her early 20s, she met a distant relative and they fell in love. To this day, she speaks very fondly of her Nariman.......