Many may not be aware of the large sums of money left behind by the philanthropist Eduljee Dinshaw with the University of Bombay to be awarded as scholarships to deserving Zoroastrian students. As a beneficiary of one of these scholarships from January 1958 to December 1961, I would like to narrate the story behind it.
I was neither a topper in the BSc or MSc, nor involved in any path-breaking research and was therefore surprised when I received a letter from Bombay University stating that I had been awarded the prestigious Eduljee Dinshaw ‘D’ scholarship for higher studies abroad for a......