Nandini Nair
She dedicated her life to making cancer treatment accessible
The greatest spy novelist fictionalised his life while his fiction often seemed too real
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi writes a succinct meditation on old age and death and the doors it opens for those left behind
Patel was a lone ranger in a party known for its groupism. With his death, Sonia Gandhi has lost the golden bridge linking her family to the party. And it can get very lonely up there in a castle of melting wax
Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee showed what it is to be a man in modern India
From his debut as an adult Apu, Soumitra Chatterjee taught generations of Bengalis, especially the men, how to be at home in the world