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Henry the Last

Kissinger reinvented the axis of global equations with breakthrough ideas implemented with breathtaking insouciance

BN Goswamy (1933-2023): Sage and Sensitivity

Art historian BN Goswamy combined an empirical precision with a soaring imagination

PRS ‘Biki’ Oberoi (1929-2023): India’s Innkeeper

The country’s finest hotelier reinvented desire

Gieve Patel (1940-2023): Verse to Canvas

His artistic freedom came from a refusal to be evasive

Chronicle of My Death Foretold

In defence of dignity in departure

Bishan Singh Bedi (1946-2023): Spin Master

After a glittering career, he mentored the next generation of legends

Never Again

So many Jews have not been killed in a single day since the Holocaust. India must help us get the hostages released

MS Swaminathan (1925-2023): The Green Revolutionary

He pulled India out of the trenches of hunger by bringing science to agriculture

CR Rao (1920-2023): Man of Numbers