 A member of the Parsi community Piloo Mody was one of the sons of Sir Homi Mody.He was educated at The Doon School, Dehradun, and at the University of California, Berkeley, from where he graduated with a master's degree in architecture.Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who went on to become Prime Minister of Pakistan in the 1970s, was his college roommate and the two were close friends.