PR Ramesh
Heeraba Modi was extraordinary in her simplicity, resilience and capacity for love
Despite his individual genius, Pelé was the archetype of the team player
The French author’s book on the city’s poverty also showed the resilience of its people
Few authors are as synonymous with a city as French author Dominique Lapierre was with Kolkata
She will long be remembered for her efforts to promote women’s welfare
India had changed the direction of a life spent in the pursuit of things as they were before
He was a perfect practitioner of realpolitik and yet his earthiness endeared him to friends and foes alike
Projecting himself as the leader of numerous Other Backward Castes, he forged together a powerful Muslim-Yadav alliance
Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) humanised characters from history, as she was interested in where politics met psychology, where the private met the public
Often described as one of the finest writers of the 21st century, she is the first woman and only the fourth person to win two Booker prizes