Bhanu Athaiya (1929-2020): Oscar-winning costume designer was a cut above the rest

Her iconic creations shaped the look of Hindi cinema between the 1950s and the 2000s.

Nandini Ramnath

· Oct 15, 2020 · 07:00 pm

Pushpa Bhave (1939-2020): Cultural critic, social activist, the embodiment of middle-class Mumbai

Her quarrel was with those who had the power and misused it, which meant, in effect, almost all governments.

Salil Tripathi

· Oct 11, 2020 · 07:30 am

SP Balasubrahmanyam remembered: ‘There is no death, he is already so much a part of us’

‘His was the voice that accompanied our attempts at our first courtships, our balm during stormy weather.’

Anil Srinivasan

· Sep 26, 2020 · 10:30 am

SP Balasubrahmanyam (1946-2020): His heavenly voice will echo through the ages

The legendary singer, actor and music director died in Chennai on September 25. He was 74.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Sep 25, 2020 · 02:00 pm

As statistician CR Rao turns 100, a young colleague explains why he’s considered a living legend

His work demonstrates the immense potential in Indian academia.

Atanu Biswas

· Sep 13, 2020 · 07:30 am

Agnivesh (1939-2020): The man who tried to reclaim the colour saffron from political opportunists

He devoted his life to India’s most marginalised and to the cause of secularism.

John Dayal

· Sep 11, 2020 · 10:30 pm

Czech New Wave legend Jiri Menzel dies at 82

The director’s acclaimed movies include ‘Closely Watched Trains’ and ‘My Sweet Little Village’.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 07, 2020 · 02:41 pm

Wakanda forever: What Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther portrayal meant for Afrofuturism

The mythical African nation depicted in the comics and the film adaptation is a world free of European colonisation.

Clare Corbould, The Conversation

· Sep 01, 2020 · 03:32 pm

Watch: Chadwick Boseman’s best performances (other than ‘Black Panther’)

The 43-year-old actor died of colon cancer, his family said in a statement shared on Twitter.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 29, 2020 · 12:27 pm

‘You live in the minds of others’: A day with theatre legend Ebrahim Alkazi (1925-2020)

Notes from a balmy March morning in 1995.

Rajesh Mishra

· Aug 09, 2020 · 12:06 pm

Sadia Dehlvi and Agha Ashraf Ali both embodied Humanist modernity steeped in old world charm

Each wished deeply to mould the present and the future in the finest traditions that had formed them.

David Devadas

· Aug 08, 2020 · 07:32 pm

CS Seshadri (1932-2020): World-class algebraic geometer, institution-builder and music lover

India loses a pioneer of mathematics.

S Ramanan

· Jul 31, 2020 · 11:30 am