Died: Fali Ardeshir Poncha, 85, regarded as an authority on insurance and reinsurance matters, and one of the early members of the Committee for Electoral Rights (CER) that sought to involve the Parsi community in the Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) trusteeship elections nearly four decades earlier; on December 25, 2019 in Bombay.
"An octogenarian seated somewhere in the middle would get up and ask questions most relevant for the broking community. The voice was resonant. The delivery was in his flawless English laced with Gujarati and Parsi accents. He did not merely raise questions; he also had suggestions to make.......