New Delhi:
With profound sorrow, I inform you that Yahya Lokhandwala, the well-known rationalist of Bombay, died on May 4, at Ahmedabad. He was 67. According to his will his eyes and body were donated to Ahmedabad medical college. It was to attend a marriage that he went there from Bombay. The Indian Rationalist Association lost a great comrade and a staunch fighter for the cause we all so dearly cherish. A well-known social and political activist, Yahya Lokhandwala was the President of Indian Rationalist Association till March 1983. Later, he was an executive member of IRA. He actively participated in different fields with which he had connections. He was also the president of Bombay Printers’ Cooperatives Society and Bombay Ration a list Association. During the freedom struggle, he took active part in it and was in jail for 21 years. For some years, he published a political journal too. The Indian Rationalist Association expresses its heart felt condolences to the bereaved family of Lokhandwala.
(Sanal Edamaruku, General Secretary, IRA.)
