Paresh Thakkar, R.I.P
Paresh Thakkar, 38, who lived with his family in a fifth-floor flat in Dahisar, overlooking the mangroves.The 6-foot-tall, bespectacled and soft-spoken Thakkar epitomised the quintessential Mumbaiite: he was self-made, hard working and principled. At 15, after his Class X exams, to supplement the family income hit by a father’s ailing health, he began working at a teashop in the South Mumbai locality of Dongri. He also studied Commerce at the city’s Jai Hind College.
Later, he worked as an accountant for a city tyre company, venturing into selling insurance policies from 1991. In 1995, he decided to devote himself fulltime to insurance…
