Piloo Mody
Piloo Mody (14 November 1926–29 January 1983) was an Indian politician and the founder of the Swatantra Party. He was an advocate of liberal and free politics of India. He was a member of the 4th and 5th Lok Sabha. He represented Godhra constituency in Gujarat in the parliament. Later, he was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 10 April 1978 till his death. A member of the Parsi community, he was married to a Swiss national. An architecture school (Piloo Mody College of Architecture, Cuttack, Orissa) and a FIDE chess tournament are named in his honour.
Mody was educated at The Doon School, Dehradun and at the University of California, Berkeley, from where he did his Masters degree in Architecture. He was close to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto[citation needed], the former Pakistani prime minister, his school and college roommate. Piloo Mody was a great friend of Zulifikar Ali Bhutto and wrote the book Zulfy my Friend".
His brother, Russi Mody is a former chairman of Tata Iron and Steel company Limited. Piloo was arrested by Indira Gandhi government under MISA in Emergency in India in 1975 [1] Piloo Mody was instrumental in enacting India's Architects' Act of 1972.
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- Zulfi, My Friend (1973)
- Democracy Means Bread and Freedom (1979)
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