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Zafar Futehally
Zafar Rashid Futehally (19 March 1920 – 11 August 2013) was an Indian naturalist and conservationist best known for his work as the secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society and for the ''Newsletter for Birdwatchers'' a periodical that helped birdwatchers around India to communicate their observations.
==Biography==
Zafar Futehally was born in Andheri in 1920. The family lived at Gulshun, a property bought from Homi Mody in 1918. This land was mortgaged by his father to establish N. Futehally & Co., one of the first Indian companies to deal in the export of cotton to and import of textiles from Japan.〔Futehally (2014):4.〕 In 1924 the family moved to Kobe in Japan to run the company branch and returning to India only in 1927.〔Futehally (2014):7.〕 He studied economics at St. Xavier's College in Bombay. Graduating with a BA in economics and political science in 1941 he wrote the public service commission examination, stood 84 among 3400 candidates and went through several interviews but did not get selected.〔Futehally (2014):8.〕 He was then offered work at his brother's company,Dynacraft Machine Company from 1942. The company was run along with his brother and cousin but in 1985 the Futehally brothers were removed from the board.〔Futehally (2014):9.〕 Zafar's maternal grandfather was Badruddin Tyabji, the eminent lawyer and president of the Indian National Congress and was a distant cousin of Salim Ali and was married to Laeeq Futehally (1921-6 July 2014), a niece of Salim Ali, on 19 December 1943. They had a son, Murad; and two daughters Zahida (Zai) and Shama who also took to writing. Zai wrote biographies of Romulus Whitaker and Salim Ali. Shama who died in 2004 was the author of novels "Tara Lane" and "Reaching Bombay Central", a translator of the Meera Bhajans and Urdu poetry apart from numerous other literary works.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=28 January 2006 )〕〔Futehally (2014):10.〕
In 1972 he moved to Bangalore where he lived for a while in the Palace orchards area before moving to a farm house in Dodda Gubbi on the outskirts of Bangalore. Laeeq took her skills in gardening and landscaping while also writing on the topic in a column in the ''Deccan Herald''.〔Futehally (2014):36-43.〕 A dacoit attack in 1987 at their home in Dodda Gubbi forced the couple to move to Kodaikanal with their daughter Zai for four years before returning to live in Koramangala in Bangalore.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Newsmaker: Zafar Futehally )〕 In Kodaikanal, they worked with the Palani Hills Conservation Council. In 2013 he left Bangalore to move back to his home in Kihim. He died on 11 August 2013 at his home in Kihim, following a bronchial infection.〔(【引用サイトリンク】year=2013 )〕 He was cremated at Kihim according to his wishes.〔Afterword by Zai Whitaker in Futehally(2014):168.〕
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