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Larry McMurtry (1936-2021): Book Rancher

Lhendup G Bhutia

The novelist and screenwriter explored the myths and legacies of the American West

V Shanta (1927-2021): Doctor on Duty

She dedicated her life to making cancer treatment accessible

Exile and the Kingdom

The writer who famously took India to America was his own biggest story

The Writer Who Came In From the Cold

The greatest spy novelist fictionalised his life while his fiction often seemed too real

A Writer and the Art of Memory

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi writes a succinct meditation on old age and death and the doors it opens for those left behind

Dancer Like No One Else

He expanded the possibilities and aesthetics of Indian dance

Diego Maradona (1960-2020): God’s Player

A flawed genius whose flaws only add to his immortality

Ahmed Patel (1949-2020): Power Behind the Power

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

Covid-19 Vaccine

Tamp down hope of an early normalisation

Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): Rays of Light

Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee showed what it is to be a man in modern India

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