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Ervad Nadir Ardeshir Modi, legal luminary, professor of law and English at the H. R. and Jai Hind Colleges in Bombay, philanthropist, savior of the Dadar Parsi Colony; much has been known about this colossus of a man. However, to me, he was just Dad. I had the honor and privilege of being his only daughter. He was a fantastic father; in fact he was both father and mother to me. Very few enjoyed the privilege of being in his inner coterie. He often quoted William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: "Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,/ Grapple them to thy soul......