Chronicle of My Death Foretold

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

20 years on, Sérgio de Mello’s Indian-origin friend opens up about his death in Baghdad, movie on him

The UN top official’s death in the Aug 19, 2003 attack was preventable; Sergio the film is rubbish, says former UN veteran Mukesh Kapila

Oommen Chandy (1943-2023): A Reasonable Politician

The former Kerala chief minister was decent, accessible and generous

Milan Kundera: The Other K from Prague

John B Goodenough (1922-2023): Vital Energy

The Nobel-winning inventor of lithium-ion batteries refused to profit from it

Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023): A Poet of Violence

Recognition took its time but Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) passed away as one of the greatest writers of his era