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Anil Dharker ( 1947 —2021): Mumbai’s Mind

Nandini Nair

As editor, columnist and literary impresario, Anil Dharker was an original

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

The Brutal Honesty of Kim Ki-duk (1960-2020)

The celebrated and controversial South Korean director’s films were replete with gore, violence and sex, but they also exposed our hypocrisies

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

Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): Rays of Light

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

Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): A Global Humanist

From his debut as an adult Apu, Soumitra Chatterjee taught generations of Bengalis, especially the men, how to be at home in the world

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