John McCain (1936-2018): The country the Republican hoped to lead no longer reflects his values

McCain spent his life committed to principles that, tragically, have fallen from favour.

Elizabeth Sherman, The Conversation

· Aug 26, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Kofi Annan: A complicated legacy of impressive achievements, and some profound failures

Kofi Annan was the first UN employee to rise to the position of secretary general, but his tenure also had a darker side.

Danny Bradlow, The Conversation

· Aug 21, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018): A poet among bigots

This was a politician representing an extreme, sectarian trend, who did not permit his ideology to wholly subdue his humanity.

Ramachandra Guha

· Aug 16, 2018 · 06:32 pm

Somnath Chatterjee (1929-2018): The communist who exemplified the marvel of India’s democracy

The veteran leader will always be remembered as the Speaker who put Constitutional principles above party loyalty.

Neerja Chowdhury

· Aug 14, 2018 · 07:00 am

RK Dhawan (1937-2018): The stenographer who became the most important man in Indira Gandhi’s PMO

The Congress veteran, who died on Monday, remained a Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist till the very end.

Anita Katyal

· Aug 08, 2018 · 07:00 am

M Karunanidhi (1924-2018): Five-time Tamil Nadu CM, Dravidian champion, gritty political survivor

History will probably judge the Tamil icon by the way the Dravidian movement evolves after his death.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Aug 07, 2018 · 06:46 pm

Philip Tabane (1934-2018): South Africa’s musical genius who hated being labelled

Philip Tabane was unlike any other musician. His music was intimately woven into his cosmology and spirituality.

Gwen Ansell, The Conversation

· May 25, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, saviour of the East Kolkata Wetlands, believed in people and not policies

The environmentalist, who died on Friday, fought his battle as a bureaucrat, researcher, academic, public intellectual and activist.

Amitangshu Acharya

· Feb 20, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Asma Jahangir (1952-2018): The human rights icon from Pakistan was a feisty street fighter

The renowned senior lawyer suffered from a cardiac arrest and died in Lahore on Sunday.

Saroop Ijaz

· Feb 11, 2018 · 04:52 pm

Remembering Hugh Masekela (1939-2018): The trumpeter who never let his music grow old

The South African jazz legend made an impact across the world during his decades-long musical career.

Gwen Ansell, The Conversation

· Jan 23, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Brutal legacy: In death as in life, Ali Abdullah Saleh left Yemen a worse place

The strongman’s rule brought misery to the Yemeni people, who must now suffer further intensification of fighting because of his killing in early December.

Juliette Harkin, The Conversation

· Dec 10, 2017 · 11:30 pm

‘She was never one to sit on the fence’: Scholar Chandan Gowda remembers his friend Gauri Lankesh

She felt comforted that she was uncompromising in the frank expression of views and in the embrace of democratic values.

Chandan Gowda

· Sep 12, 2017 · 10:30 am