Tribute
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Sunil Kumar (1956-2021): A historian who was passionate about reading Delhi’s past from its present
His big book was ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286’.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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Sunil Kothari (1933-2020): A great dance theoretician who was always full of childlike enthusiasm
Conversations with him were always rewarding. He was touched by the Greek muse Terpsichore, he understood what Shiva’s tandava nritya meant.
Salil Tripathi
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Roddam Narasimha (1933-2020): A scientist-engineer with an endless thirst for knowledge
RN, as he was known, guided several generations of scientists.
Ronak Gupta
Trending
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Virat Kohli uses an 'MRF bat'. Rohit Sharma uses a 'CEAT bat'. But whose bat do they really use?
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Green card reform, no more Muslim ban: What Biden’s immigration proposals promise
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Online abuse of Kamala Harris shows that automated moderation doesn’t stop trolls
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‘Delhi is our capital too’: A blow-by-blow account of the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day
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Fashionable dog laments outfits it could not wear in 2020
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My brief exchange with John le Carré
A filmmaker gets a letter from a long-admired writer.
Dylan Mohan Gray
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Astad Deboo (1947-2020): Photographs and memories in poems in tribute to the dance pioneer
Renowned for bringing modern dance to the stage, Astad Deboo died on December 10, 2020 at the age of 73.
Naveen Kishore
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‘My professional name is Dilip Kumar’: Encounters with one of India’s greatest actors
The thespian is two short of a unique century today.
Anwar Abbas
Video
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Watch: Teenager shows what British sitcoms would be like if set during the pandemic
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Watch: Mother surprises daughter with cancer by shaving her own head too
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Watch: Time-lapse of the snowiest day in over five decades seen in Omaha, US
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Watch: Doctors suture head injury of farmer under mobile phone lights after tractor rally
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Watch: Meet Simba, the first lion cub born from artificial insemination in a Singapore wildlife park
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Her own knight and her own saviour: Celebrating Sharmila Tagore’s quiet feminism
The multidimensional actor has bucked the film industry’s expectations from heroines and defied society’s unwritten rules.
Shweta Bansal
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Anjum Singh (1967-2020): The artist who laid bare the circuits of colonised land and materials
Aggressive cancer didn’t stop her from working hard and living generously.
Bharati Chaturvedi
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Tarun Gogoi (1936-2020): The chief minister who changed Assam slowly, slowly
Gogoi took charge of a state ravaged by militancy. He did not wait for peace to address other problems.
Ipsita Chakravarty
The Reel
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Watch: AR Rahman launches ‘maajja’ platform to promote independent music
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Warner Bros releases sneak peek of ‘Suicide Squad’ sequel, new films with Hugh Jackman, Will Smith
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‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’: Series revisits LA hotel linked to several crimes
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‘Silk Road’ trailer: Crime thriller examines the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht and his darknet site
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‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ trailer: Disney animated film out in cinemas on March 5
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Flashback: In ‘As Time Goes By’, Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench make a droll and deadly pair
The 1990s sitcom of the 1990s is indeed a perfect nightcap, provided one is not offended by the insular and ultra-Brit content.
Bubla Basu
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Remembering Baxsan, one of the most popular Somali singers of all time
Revered even by her adversaries, Baxsan was not buried in a way that many Somalis would see fitting.
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, The Conversation
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‘Apu will be missed’: Tributes pour in for acting legend Soumitra Chatterjee
The Bengali actor died on November 15 from Covid-19 complications. He was 85.
Scroll Staff
The Field
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Watch: Bharat Arun on the difference in Ajinkya Rahane and Virat Kohli’s captaincy style for bowlers
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ISL: Poor finishing, woodwork deny dominant Kerala Blasters a win against Jamshedpur
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Kerala High Court issues notice to Virat Kohli in a plea seeking ban on online gambling
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Watch: Don’t put too much pressure on Shubman Gill, allow him to develop, says Gautam Gambhir
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AFC Cup: ATK Mohun Bagan handed tricky group stage opponents in Maldives’ Maziya, Bangladesh’s Kings