Ardeshir Cowasjee is a renowned newspaper columnist from Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

 in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. His columns regularly appear in the country's oldest English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 newspaper Dawn

Dawn (newspaper)

Dawn is Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. One of the country's two largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the Herald, a magazine, the evening paper The Star and...

. Recently a new blog (ardeshircowasjee.blogspot.com) has been started with the view of accumulating the bulk of ardeshir's articles. His work is translated and published in Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 press.

He is also Chairman of the Cowasjee Group

Cowasjee Group

Cowasjee Group is based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Cowasjee Group is the oldest shipping and stevedore agency existing in Pakistan today. It was established in Karachi in 1883 by the members of the Cowasjee family. The current chairman of Cowasjee Group is Ardeshir Cowasjee...

 and is engaged in philanthropic activities apart from being regarded as an old 'guardian' of the city of Karachi.
Ardeshir Cowasjee was born in 1926 at Karachi and hails from the well-known Cowasjee Parsi (Zoroastrian) family.