Nergis dalal biography channel

My mother, Nergis Dalal, a multi-faceted person and a well-known writer, was born exactly 100 years ago on 13 June 1920. On this occasion, almost eight years after her death, many memories surface.

She was born Nergis Ghandy at Panchgani, and grew up mainly in Pune.

The youngest of seven children, she began her writing career at the age of 17. Her first article was published in the newspaper Blitz, and after this there was no looking back. Seeing her writing in longhand, her father gifted her with a Royal typewriter, that she used for the next forty years.

Nargis fakhri married

She married Jamshed Dalal in 1943, and reached Dehradun soon after her marriage. My father, Jamshed, had first come to Dehradun in 1938, when he had been selected for the Survey of India. In 1942 he received a war commission and joined the army in the Corps of Engineers.

He remained an army officer, and was seconded to the Survey of India, his parent organisation, in 1951.

Nergis had three children by 1952, and I was the last. A