Hockey player, sports manager, social worker,
Sheila Irani raised eight children
Farida Irani
One lesson that I learnt from my dear mother-in-law Shireen Ardeshir Irani (popularly known as Sheila) was "You are damned if you do and you are damned if you don’t so you might as well do what you love to do.” That dissolved layers of inhibitions and taught me to be as confident as she was.
She made the most of what life had to offer and besides mothering eight children — four boys: Polad, Sheriar, Marazban, Behram, and four girls: Firoza, Zenobia, Yasmin, Gulrukh — she made time to play hockey, do social work, visit the ailing injured jawans, tend......