well travelled.
His disarming smile and unassuming demeanour will continue to live in the memory of many people whose lives he touched and transformed.
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
A few people have enriched my life through their integrity and strength. I don’t think I can name more than six but, of this I am certain, Balvant is one of them and I shall be grateful for his existence until the end of my life.
Who knows the truth
And is faithful to both.
Ramakrishna Mandir Road, Off Sir Mathuradas Vasanji Road, Andheri East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400059
Follow us
through
their eyes
Usha Mehta
Gandhiji has advised industrialists to become the trustees of their property. Balvantbhai fully tried to carry out the advice in his own life. In his behaviour, one would not find the discrimination between master and servant or poor and rich. For him, no individual is small, no work is insignificant.
A great and unfortunately rare human being , a humane and caring industrialist, he cared for people above prots, though his business proted greatly through his good works. He was greatly loved by all of his employees from drivers and cafeteria workers to top-level managers.
May B. K. Parekh’s legacy of good works live on.
Bruce I. Kodish
With continued conversations, leading questions, and a bit of skillful probing I was able to get to what I believe to be the root of it all. His person knows a great deal about himself. And he keeps this knowledge this awareness, the common failings that all of us share, are not allowed to spoil or pollute the clarity of his generous actions.
Gieve Patel
I, at once, took to this so-spoken man with a twinkle in his eyes to me. He is the quintessential Indian that I love. Sharp, intelligent, shrewd, and, at the same time, warm and compassionate. I encountered a man who, I felt, knows himself and life and accepts both as they are.
Mini Dastoor