Homi Jahangir Bhabha by Sanjay Goyal

The beginning of the nuclear science programmes in independent India marked the rise of a new powerful India. The credit for this goes to Dr . Homi Jehangir Bhabha, who laid the foundation of these programmes. It is for this reason that he is known as “the Director of the Nuclear Science in modern India” . Dr . Homi Jehangir was born on 30 October , 1909 in Bombay in an educated and prosperous Parsi family . His grandfather , Dr . Hurmus Bhabha was the Director of the Department of Education in the State of Mysore and his father Shri J.H. Bhabha got his education for some time in the Oxford University . His name is taken with respect in the then senior barristers. Her mother’s name was Smt. Mehran Bhabha. She was a very simple and religious lady.