Deena M. Mistri

She was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, on 21 May 1925, to Dhunmai & Seth Pestonjee Jamshedji Soparivala.

In those days, since Sindh was a part of the Bombay Presidency, the degree was formally awarded by Bombay University in 1945, and then she received her BEd with Honors in 1958 from the Government Teachers' Training College in Karachi.

She became the principal of the Bai Virbaijee Soparivala Parsi High School in 1972 and then served in that position for many years – the same school that was founded by her great-grandfather Seth Shapurji Hormusji Soparivala in 1859.

[1] At the time of her death, Mistri was Chairperson of Westminster School and College, Karachi.

[1] Mistri died on 27 January 2011 at age 85 as a result of a brain infarction.