The Zoroastrian community in Sydney lost two nonagenarians in the last week of July 2021. Their oldest member, 97-year-old Jer Rusie Rustomjee, passed away on July 26, 2021. Three days prior, 94-year-old Dorab Ratan Kotwal, past president of the Australian Zoroastrian Association (AZA), died peacefully at his home, reported AZA honorary secretary Mithi Daver, giving insights into their meaningful lives.
Remembered by all as "the quintessential gentleman with a smile,” Kotwal’s interest in AZA never flagged until the end. Within a week of his arrival in Australia in 1972, he was coopted on to the management committee of AZA that......