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Emotional directness, common man’s language: What made Urdu poet Bashir Badr (1935-2026) great
Amitabha Bagchi
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‘A very rare human being who treated editorial work as art’: Remembering publisher Krishan Chopra
Ananth Padmanabhan
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Asha Bhosle changed what a woman’s feelings were allowed to sound like
Parv Tyagi
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Sankar (1933-2026): Chronicler of cosmopolitan moral anguish in the pursuit of success
Arunava Sinha
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The window that does not close: Remembering Vinod Kumar Shukla (1937-2025)
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
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Tom Stoppard (1937–2025): How the British playwright, born in Europe, rewrote the rules of theatre
Sayandeb Chowdhury
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‘Wanting to know makes us matter’: Playwright Tom Stoppard (1937-2025) made us all philosophers
Fergus Edwards, The Conversation
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First person: Songs my mother taught me
Nirupama Menon Rao
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025): Five things to know about one of Africa’s greatest ever writers
Peter Kimani, The Conversation
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Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
Sujaan Mukherjee
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Rajnikumar Pandya (1938-2025): A Gujarati writer fascinated by Hindi film music – and its creators
Urvish Kothari
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How the virtuosic musical interpreter Roberta Flack killed us softly with her song
Leigh Carriage, The Conversation
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‘Those who knew her will remember her laughter’: A Pakistani novelist’s farewell to Bapsi Sidhwa
Sehba Sarwar
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Tribute: MT Vasudevan Nair’s fiction holds the fragrance of Valluvanad and luminance of River Nila
Anupama Raju
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One hundred years of Nissim Ezekiel: What the poet’s life and work tell us about him
Sreekala Sivasankaran
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Keki Daruwalla (1937-2024): A sculptor of words with a keen ear for rhythm and metre
Sukrita Paul Kumar
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Maggie Smith (1934-2024): Glimpses of ten iconic roles played by the actor
Scroll Staff
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This book is a sister’s tribute to her brother, an army major who died in a road accident at 31
Vinod Kotwal
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Remembering P Thankappan Nair (1933-2024), the historian-archivist-bibliographer of Kolkata
Sujaan Mukherjee
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Alice Munro followed the back roads of stories, mapping routes home to southwestern Ontario
Manina Jones, The Conversation