Maharashtra government’s promises to put in place processes for registering and executing living wills, with a little prodding by the Bombay High Court, could finally ease the way for passive euthanasia
The elder brother of the Dalai Lama who retired from public life to run a noodle factory in a distant Indian town had a large influence on modern Tibetan history
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle