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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Mr. Jinnah with friends
I got this rare photgraph from Mahmood on Victoria Road. He could not identify the others although the man in the center resembles the Nawab of Jungadh. The British General is Douglas Gracey. Mr Jinnah seems in a relaxed mood ostensibly with his favorite 'Craven A' cigarettes, which finally got him.
Mr. Jinnah on a car ride with a Parsi friend
No the child is not Ruttie or is she? Actually I thought so ages ago because a book of Mr Jinnah's photographs edited by Mr Rafiq Akhtar gave the identity of the driver as Sir Dinshaw Petit. Shagufta Yasmeen who wrote the first biography of Ruttie Jinnah told me it was not Ruttie. And now its been confirmed. Jinnah's friend here is Pestonjee H J Rustomjee and the child is Homi Rustomjee.
A Nation is orphaned
Mr Jinnah's daughter and sisters mourn his death on his funeral
A nation is orphaned, originally uploaded by Doc Kazi.
Rutten Bai Petit around the time she married Jinnah in 1918
Born a Parsi, she converted to Islam on her 18th birthday and left her father's mansion with two pets only to marry Jinnah. Exactly eleven years later she was dead of an overdose of painkillers to treat her abdominal cancer. Jinnah never married again and died a lonely man. Known as the nightingale of Bombay, Ruttie died on her 29th birthday on 20 February 1929
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