Cyrus P Mehta
His life remembered at his funeral by his son Rointon
Cyrus’s family home was in Karachi. His mother’s family lived in Surat which is 423 miles from Karachi. The custom was, in those days, for daughters to return to their mum’s, to give birth, so Cyrus was born on Wednesday 17 th of October 1917 in Surat.
He grew up in Karachi with his four brothers, two older and two younger and went to the Parsi boys school where he lived in the shadow of his two elder brothers who were academically brilliant. Cyrus told me the story of how he could always rely on Hoshang to help him with his home work and Nowser, who was rather large, to defend from school bullies. But, he was not afraid to speak up when he felt that things were not being done properly.