A family home was co-opted as a
refuge for Poona’s stray dogs and cats
Delshad Karanjia
Padmini Stump had it all — a carefree childhood in Poona with her parents Gulshan and Jal Nigedar Irani and their pets; a promising modeling career and good looks that won her May Queen and Carnival Queen beauty titles year after year; a picture-perfect family life with her civil engineer husband Peter Stump, daughter Sandra and sons Steven and Shaun in Dubai — until tragedy struck on March 15, 2006, and her life was never the same again…
Born and brought up in Poona, Padmini was given her unusual (for a Zoroastrian) first name by none other than the legendary......