The last trustee of the family owned Rustamji Cawasji Banaji (Kadmi) agiary "died a pauper’s death this month,” states columnist and one-time Calcutta resident Bachi Karkaria (The Times of India, April 26, 2018). Karkaria termed it "the last male in the coffin of a sacred fire which died almost 40 years ago.” The dilapidated fire temple has been encroached upon by vendors (pictured) for the 
past several decades. The grade one heritage building was built in 1839 by Manekjee Rustomjee "amongst the first of Calcutta’s storied merchant princes…
"His many splendored empire fell to colonial history, profligate heirs and cannibalistic feuds. Unpaid, the sole priest left, and the sacred fire perished; the durwans stayed, but recovered their dues by parceling out the compound to the vicinity’s electrical shops.”
When Parsiana accompanied by the late honorary secretary of The Federation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Anjumans of India, Keki Gandhi, visited the agiary in the late 1980s and met with the last, mentally impaired trustee, much of the furniture in his abode in the agiary complex was covered with white sheets. A chair on which one of our editors sat, collapsed. The trustee had limited comprehension or control of what was going on around him.
Lamented Karkaria: "Delusions of grandeur turned him into an object of derision, driving him deeper into the now-derelict old house with its own creeping encroachment of phantoms. His death was a shaming reminder that he’d been alive.”