Friends remember Cowasjee

Published November 29, 2012
“A great loss,” is how M.A. Majid, the man who edited Ardeshir Cowasjee’s columns for decades, summed up the columnist’s death. Cowasjee passed away at the age of 86 after fighting against the evils that plague the city of his birth Karachi. Here, his friends and former editors remember the man, the writer and the philanthropist.

“A serious loss,” is how M.A. Majid, the man who edited Ardeshir Cowasjee’s columns for decades, summed up the columnist’s death. Cowasjee passed away at the age of 86 after fighting against the evils that plague the city of his birth Karachi. Here, his friends and former editors remember the man, the writer and the philanthropist.

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