"The daughter of an unassuming Gujarati father and Parsi mother… she inherited 30,000 sq ft of property, on which her father’s printing press stood in Parel, on his passing in 2005,” wrote the Hindustan Times (HT) columnist Malavika Sangghvi on September 17, 2021. Being an only child brought up in an atmosphere of giving, she thought that "the best way she could honor her parents’ memory was to donate the property to the Tata Memorial Hospital (pictured) so that it could construct an additional chemotherapy center.” The Hospital, said to treat one-third of the country’s population of cancer patients, has 100 beds for chemotherapy, inadequate for the over 500 patients who require the treatment, noted Sangghvi.
Reporting the gift of the land, which is in close proximity to the Hospital and is worth Rs 120 crores, online newsmagazine mumbailive.com had revealed the name of the donor as Deepika Mundle (61) on September 6. Both mumbailive.com and The 
Times of India reported that 18 other donors had pooled in Rs 18 crores for the construction of the facility.
"I don’t know how the news with my name came out last week, even after I had requested that it shouldn’t. And I was hugely embarrassed by it,” Mundle told Sangghvi.
Mundle stated that she was moved by the condition of the patients whenever she visited her father’s press. Later, through her aunt Dr Zarin Bharucha, a leading figure in the Red Cross and the establishment of blood banks in India, she "had many opportunities to visit the Hospital to donate blood and see first-hand the immense suffering faced by patients due to the shortage of beds. So, when I inherited the property, I had no doubt that this was the right thing to do.”
Family support was available in full for Mundle’s move. "Fortunately, my husband who is a successful chartered accountant and hails from a solid middle-class Maharashtrian family that believes in giving encouraged me to do so.” Her son, a techie in Bangalore did not have any objections. "I guess we were all brought up to know the difference between one’s needs and one’s wants,” noted Mundle.
Bharucha, who introduced Mundle to the Hospital trust and "encouraged me through the entire process of dealing with authorities in the Hospital and the civic body which took around two-and-a-half years,” passed away on September 12 due to age-related illnesses.
"All the credit for making me who I am goes first and foremost to my parents, who gave me my sense of values and taught me to stay grounded,” said Mundle. I also credit my teachers at The J. B. Vachha School… who further inculcated those values, and of course my husband and his family who have supported my decision all along.” F. J.