[Letter to Mr Minoo Masani]

Summary

This one-page typed letter, dated 26 July 1977, is a brief courtesy reply from M. S. Pirzada of 31-E, Keshav Wadi, Mahim, Bombay-400016, to Minoo Masani at his Personnel & Productivity Services office in the Army & Navy Building on Mahatma Gandhi Road. Pirzada acknowledges receipt of Masani’s circular inviting him to a discussion scheduled for the 29th of the same month and thanks him for the invitation.

He pledges to attend the meeting, hedging his commitment with the phrase ‘if any untoward culminations do not restrain me’. The letter closes with renewed thanks and Pirzada’s signature. The document carries no substantive argumentative content; it survives in the archive as an artifact of the discussion circles Masani was convening in the immediate post-Emergency months of 1977. A handwritten annotation reading ‘Seen’ appears next to the address block, presumably an office marking.

Key points

• Typed one-page letter from M. S. Pirzada of 31-E, Keshav Wadi, Mahim, Bombay-400016, dated 26 July 1977.
• Addressed to Mr. M. R. Masani at Personnel & Productivity Services, Army & Navy Building, 3rd floor, 148 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-400 023.
• Pirzada acknowledges a circular from Masani inviting him to a discussion to be held on 29 July 1977.
• He commits to positively attend the discussion, qualified by the phrase ‘if any untoward culminations do not restrain me’.
• The letter is signed ‘M. S. Pirzada’ and bears a handwritten ‘Seen’ notation on the addressee block.