I was very deeply touched by the detailed article on the late Shanoor Forbes ("Struggle for survival,” Memoirs, Parsiana, April 7-20, 2019), who became a tetraplegic as the result of a fall from a horse and was wheelchair bound. Not many are aware that she was the daughter of the extremely eminent counsel on excise and allied laws Porus Mehta, a very humble and simple person rendering top class service at extremely modest fees.
Forbes was also a good painter and fond of horses. One of her paintings, of a horse, adorned the chamber of her father. Alas, her father’s breed of counsel, concerned with service first and fees only second has been relegated to the pages of history, subject to a few exceptions.
NANU B. DARUVALA
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