Maneck Dalal recalls his encounters with Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal
Nehru and others during his days with Air India’s London office
These chapters, reprinted with permission, are edited extracts from Maneck Dalal, an Indian in Britain, collated by Sue Dalal and published by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Copyright Sue Dalal. Maneck was a former trustee of the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe, managing director of Tata Limited and an Air India stalwart.
Maneck Dalal, above left and right center, with the Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles
Meeting the Mahatma
In early 1947 Mahatma Gandhi was staying at G. D. Birla’s lovely house in Delhi. I was asked by my chairman J. R. D. Tata to arrange for the collection of the articles......