Dina Wadia & Muhammad Ali Jinnah: A daughter's journey

Dina born in London shortly after midnight on the morning of August 15, 1919 to the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and his second wife Rattanbai Petit was a dark-eyed beauty, lithe and winsome.

She had her mother's smile.

(Image source: National Archives Islamabad)

It was her tumultuous relationship with her father, whom she teasingly addressed as ?Grey Wolf? after Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk, that will be remembered in both India and Pakistan.

(Image source: government of Pakistan)

It was Dina's choice to marry Parsi-born Indian textile baron Neville Wadia which created cracks in her relationship with her father.

Dina's marriage happened at a time when Jinnah was trying to set up his political career with visions of forming the Muslim League in India.

After India's partition, Dina refused to go to Pakistan instead she stayed back in Mumbai.

However, she later visited Pakistan for her father's funeral in Karachi in September 1948.

Her second visit was the much-hyped visit during the India-Pakistan cricket series in 2004. She undertook the journey to Pakistan since she was a great believer in 'cricket diplomacy'.

Dina famously visited Jinnah's mausoleum with her son Nusli Wadia and grandsons Ness Wadia and Jehangir Wadia.

In the visitors' book, Dina wrote: "This has been very sad and wonderful for me. May his dream for Pakistan come true."

During the 90s, Dina had staked claim to Jinnah House at Malabar Hills in Mumbai where she grew up.

The Jinnah House reduced to a footnote in history has been part of the India-Pakistan row.

Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had reportedly requested ex-PM Vajpayee that the Jinnah House be given back to Pakistan which he wanted to be turned into a Consular office.

Dina had filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court in 2007 to acquire the Jinnah House. The case is yet to be resolved.

Dina Wadia, passed away in London on Thursday, November 2, at the age of 98.