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Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): A Global Humanist
Kaveree Bamzai
From his debut as an adult Apu, Soumitra Chatterjee taught generations of Bengalis, especially the men, how to be at home in the world
The Body Couturier
Bhanu Athaiya started as an artist trained at JJ School of Art but ended her career at 91 as a pioneering costume designer for Hindi cinema. It was a life of remarkable work and incredible beauty
SP Balasubrahmanyam (1946-2020): A Versatile Voice
His 40,000 songs became the background score of the lives of millions of listeners
The House of Jaswant Singh
A classicist in politics for whom public life did not mean compromising on his moral inheritance
Rhea Chakraborty: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
Rhea Chakraborty is being portrayed as an unlikely villain in the messy aftermath of her ex-lover Sushant Singh Rajput’s death
Pranab Mukherjee (1935-2020)
He understood that democratic politics is algebra, where various parts of the electoral equation are held together by governance, not deposits in vote banks
The Ultimate Pragmatist
Juggling with figures remained the first love of the one-time economics teacher in an obscure Bengali college who became India’s youngest finance minister
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