OBITUARY
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Enduring melodies: Malian kora legend Toumani Diabaté collaborated with the world
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Learning to ‘see’: Lessons from scholar James C Scott (1936-2024)
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When Pakistani peace activist Karamat Ali (1945-2024) took an Indian journalist’s ashes ‘home’
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Sound advice from Celia Lobo (1937-2024), prima donna of the operatic stage in India
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Suresh Chandvankar (1952-2024): An archivist devoted to preserving India’s recorded sounds
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Gaddar (1949-2023): His voice inspired resistance to oppression
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In death of Kashmiri trade union leader Sampat Prakash, a voice of reason and justice lost
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Virchand Dharmasey (1935-2023): A self-taught scholar who built a priceless repository of knowledge
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Harish Chandola (1929-2023), a journalist at large in the world, and what his work represented
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Jiang Zemin’s legacy is more than just soaring economic growth and staggering inequality
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Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022): The last Soviet leader was a consequential but tragic figure
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Olivia Newton-John (1948-2022): The pop icon provided the soundtrack to many Australian lives
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Remembering Archbishop Tutu: The anti-apartheid hero who symbolised South Africa’s ‘rainbow nation’
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Land, caste, class and gender – Gail Omvedt’s writings were united in their vision of utopia
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Kuldip Singh (1934-2020): Architect who made his mark on Delhi’s modern urban form like few others
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Kirk Smith (1947-2020): The US scholar who encouraged India to switch from dirty cookstoves to LPG
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With Dilli Haat and other iconic projects, Pradeep Sachdeva helped create Indian urban design
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Karl Lagerfeld (1933-2019): The fashion legend who transformed Chanel into a global superbrand
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“One of the strongest pillars”: Dr Amit Sengupta, a leader of the public health movement, dies at 60
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‘Dr. Strangelove’ and ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ title designer Pablo Ferro dies aged 83
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Alyque Padamsee (1928-2018), the creator of dreamy ads who wanted to make secularism a cool idea
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Stan Lee was flawed, just like many of his Marvel creations
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John McCain (1936-2018): The country the Republican hoped to lead no longer reflects his values
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Kofi Annan: A complicated legacy of impressive achievements, and some profound failures
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018): A poet among bigots
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Somnath Chatterjee (1929-2018): The communist who exemplified the marvel of India’s democracy
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RK Dhawan (1937-2018): The stenographer who became the most important man in Indira Gandhi’s PMO
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M Karunanidhi (1924-2018): Five-time Tamil Nadu CM, Dravidian champion, gritty political survivor
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Philip Tabane (1934-2018): South Africa’s musical genius who hated being labelled
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Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, saviour of the East Kolkata Wetlands, believed in people and not policies
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Asma Jahangir (1952-2018): The human rights icon from Pakistan was a feisty street fighter
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Remembering Hugh Masekela (1939-2018): The trumpeter who never let his music grow old
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Brutal legacy: In death as in life, Ali Abdullah Saleh left Yemen a worse place
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‘She was never one to sit on the fence’: Scholar Chandan Gowda remembers his friend Gauri Lankesh
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Gauri Lankesh (1962-2017): Journalist who raged like a fire as she championed just causes
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Pushpa Mitra Bhargava (1928-2017): A conscientious scientist and advocate of scientific temper
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Yash Pal (1926-2017): The teacher who turned people’s common sense into good sense
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SS Khaplang: Once seen as an Indian ally, this Myanmar Naga wanted no part of the 2015 peace accord
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How Robert Pirsig’s ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ changed the way I think
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Chipko movement to water conservation: Anupam Mishra leaves behind a rich legacy of knowledge
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Tribute: Halfdan Mahler, the man who took healthcare right to where people live, work and fall ill
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Jayalalithaa: The woman who everyone knew, yet no one really did
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Being Jayalalithaa: From lonely beginnings, she scripted her own fairytale rise to power
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J Jayalalithaa (1948-2016): The doughty fighter who earned her place in the Dravidian pantheon
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Tribute: Shimon Peres and the legacy of the Oslo Accords
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Amjad Sabri (1970-2016): The man who chose the difficult path of preserving a musical tradition
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Goodbye Muhammad Ali, symbol of Black protest (and three-times world heavyweight boxing champion)
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Oh my God, Prince is dead...
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Sushil Koirala (1939-2016): He presided over and preserved Nepal's exclusive democracy
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Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (1936-2016): From 'soft-separatist' to 'collaborator'
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Murdered artist Hema Upadhyay was talented, hardworking and generous, says art community
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Fatema Mernissi (1940-2015): A dreamer who tried to bring Asia and Africa together
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Haider Rizvi (1963-2015): Journalist, optimistic rebel who stood up to General Zia's excesses
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Jagmohan Dalmiya (1940-2015): The man who symbolised India's clout in world cricket
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We don’t deserve to mourn Govind Pansare until we end our culture of killing
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RR Patil made it big in Mumbai but never really understood the city
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Justice Krishna Iyer was a judge, conscience keeper, legend, enigma, seeker
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Director Veenapani Chawla found new expressions for lines actors had said countless times before
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Why PD James wasn’t just a great writer of detective fiction. She was a great writer
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Sitara Devi, kathak dancer who lived life on her own terms, dies at 94
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Murli Deora was a bridge between the Congress and Mumbai's corporate world
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'The Duchess of Sudder Street', keeper of Kolkata's memories, will be laid to rest today
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Mandolin Srinivas' fans adored him for his inventiveness and infectious joy
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How Granville Austin beat Delhi babudom to write his book on the Indian Constitution
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Mukul Sinha, self-effacing Modi opponent and labour organiser who disliked being called a leader
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RK Srikantan, last link to a golden age of Carnatic music, dies at 94