Ruttonshaw Sorabji’s life was intertwined with that of the Delhi Parsi community
Rusi Sorabji
My father, Ruttonshaw Sorabji, was born in 1898 and orphaned as a baby by the two plagues that afflicted Bombay at the turn of the 19th century. The first took his father before his birth; the second claimed his mother a few months later. Ruttonshaw was the youngest of brothers Dosabhoy, Ardeshir and a sister. They then lived on the top floor of the corner building known as Handloom House on Hornby Road adjoining the Bori Masjid. Raised by aunts and an uncle in Karachi, after his formal education Ruttonshaw joined the North Western Railway at the age of 17.......