death

Thank You for Being the One

Divya Unny

“It’s not easy to be an actor. These girls will never know what it takes and how much one has to sacrifice,” she said to me that day as her elder daughter Janhvi threw a tantrum about her make-up. Fan, critic and actor Divya Unny remembers

Sridevi: Queen of the Eighties

Rajeev Masand

Thank you for the memories, and thank you for the movies, Sri

The Undying of the Light

Madhavankutty Pillai

On the remarkable deaths of two folk artistes while performing in Kerala

Subhas Chandra Bose’s Last Journey

Krishna Bose

The Taipei Saga

It’s Our Dignity-in-Death Moment

Madhavankutty Pillai

Why India must legalise Living Wills and remove the confusion over euthanasia and End Of Life Care

When Cows Come Home to Die

V Shoba

Some of the worst casualties of the drought in south India are its cattle

J Jayalalithaa (1948-2016): Farewell to an Icon

V Shoba in Chennai

As Jayalalithaa was interred with state honours next to MGR and CN Annadurai and her life committed to the folds of history, her ups and downs in the mild cycle of electoral politics suddenly seemed inconsequential. She had left behind a legacy of welfare schemes, many of which will have to be upheld by governments to come.