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Sheila Dikshit (1938-2019): Leader with a Capital L
Amita Shah
Dikshit’s concern for the environment, in a city where pollution levels have risen menacingly, reflected even in her last wish. She was cremated in a CNG crematorium, introduced in Delhi during her tenure
Girish Karnad (1938-2019): When Comes Such Another?
Girish Karnad used myth, history and folklore to expose our fault lines
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018): The Beloved
The leader India indulged with so much affection and admiration departs
VS Naipaul: ‘I had no set way of writing’
Seeing, feeling, and thinking with Sir Vidia. Snatches from my conversations with the greatest writer of English prose
The Fading Red Light
As builders take over Kamathipura to build residential towers, the queen of India’s red light districts heads towards certain extinction
Why?
Why did Kanu Sanyal, the very first Naxalite, take his own life? Ill health? Despair? Or was he making a final statement? The most profound of all.
The ‘Raj’ is Dead. Long Live the ‘Raj’
From Lala Amarnath to Douglas Jardine to his favourite CK Nayudu, Raj Singh Dungarpur was a treasure trove of stories. And a cricket romantic without a peer.
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