What do the railways in Mumbai, the Mumbai University and the Veermata Jijabai Bhonsle Udyan have in common? The benevolence of Jugonnath Sunkersett.

The marble statue of Jugonnath Sunkersett at the Town Hall. The actual surname of the Sunkersett family is Murkute and they hailed from Murbad. One of the ancestral homes of the family still stands in Ghodbunder near Vasai. Sunkersett’s father was known as Shanker Seth and he went on to use the name of his father, which has now become the family’s surname. Pic/Dhara Vora