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'''Kersy Katrak''' (1936&ndash;2008) was an [[India]]n [[Parsi]] advertising personality<ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
| title = Flamboyant Adman: Remembering Kersy Katrak<br />
| author = Vikram Doctor<br />
| publisher = [[The Economic Times]]<br />
| url = http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Features/Brand_Equity_/Flamboyant_Adman_Remembering_Kersy_Katrak/articleshow/2684449.cms<br />
| date = 9 January 2008 <br />
| access-date = 2008-09-23<br />
}}</ref> and [[poet]] of the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Daruwalla|first=Keki N.|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/Vibrant-verses-of-a-vanishing-poet/article16998157.ece|title=Vibrant verses of a vanishing poet|date=2017-01-07|work=The Hindu|access-date=2020-04-04|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> He revolutionized Indian advertising, great leeway to creatives, and managed to attract an enormous talent pool including<br />
[[Ajit Balakrishnan]], Sudarshan Dheer, Veeru Hiremath, Ravi Gupta,<br />
Panna Jain, Arun Kale, Anil Kapoor, Mohammed Khan, [[Arun Kolatkar]], Arun Nanda<br />
and [[Kiran Nagarkar]].<ref><br />
{{cite news<br />
| title = Obituary: Here's to you, Kersy Katrak. A tribute<br />
| author = Anand Halve <br />
| url = http://groups.google.com/group/goajourno/browse_thread/thread/6d68b0e943343476?pli=1<br />
| date = January 2, 2008<br />
| access-date = 2008-09-23<br />
}}</ref><br />
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He wrote two collections of verse, <br />
''A Journal of the Way'' and <br />
''Diversions by the Wayside'', in 1969, and was anthologized in several collections.<br />
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