Dr. H A B Parpia, was one of the Directors of CSIR-CFTRI, Mysore who succeeded Dr. V. Subrahmanyan the founder Director in 1963. The twin leading themes of Dr Parpia’s work were ‘Research in food science and technology and organization and development of food industries’. He was responsible for reorganizing the work of the Institute into an interdisciplinary pattern of project-oriented research and development. He also re-organized the training programme, and persuaded the University of Mysore to recognize the former diploma course as an M.Sc. course in Food Technology. He was the president of AFST(I) from 1964-1966. He was awarded the prestigious award of AFST(I) – Prof V Subrahmanyan Industrial Achievement award and was honoured as Fellow of AFST(I). The AFST(I) is indebted to Dr Parpia’s patronage and involvement in many of its activities including AFST(I) Education & Publication Trust.