Columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee passes away
Senior columnist and social worker Ardeshir Cowasjee passed away on Saturday.
He has been suffering from illness for a long time.
Cowasjee had gained popularity for columns in Daily Dawn and his efforts for sustainable development in Karachi metropolitan, the house of around 20 million people.
Ardeshir Cowasjee was born in 1926 at Karachi and hails from the well-known Cowasjee Parsi (Zoroastrian) family. His father Rustom Fakirjee Cowasjee was a businessman in merchant shipping.
Ardeshir attended the Bai Virbaiji Soparivala Parsi High School (BVS) and graduated from DJ Science College, Karachi. Later, he joined his father’s business, the Cowasjee Group, and married Nancy Dinshaw in 1953. He has two children, Ava (daughter) and Rustom (son).
