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William Radice made long visits to Kolkata, Dhaka, and Santiniketan, immersing himself in Bengali life and the working reality of the language.

William Radice (1951-2024): Translator who revived Tagore for modern readers

The English poet and Bengali scholar’s translations of Tagore and Michael Madhusudan Dutt brought Bengali renaissance to international audiences.

Sukanta Chaudhuri

A young Uma Dasgupta in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali.

The quiet legacy of Uma Dasgupta (1940-2024), Satyajit Ray’s young Durga in Pather Panchali

Even though the single role brought her immortality in the world of cinema, she chose the quiet life of a teacher instead of becoming a movie star.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Manoj Mitra (1938-2024): Banchharam’s garden loses its creator, and Bengal a doyen of stage and screen

His most enduring legacy is perhaps his role in Banchharamer Bagaan, considered one of the greatest performances in Bengali cinema.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Quincy Jones (1933-2024) showed the world that music speaks one language

How an 11-year-old’s break-in birthed eight decades of musical innovation, from Sinatra’s swing to Jackson’s pop revolution.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

Dinanath Batra (left) receives a memento from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at a programme commemorating the 125th birthday of RSS founder K.B. Hedgewar in Kolkata on April 01, 2015.

Dinanath Batra: The ‘educationist’ who waged war against knowledge

The RSS stalwart used lawsuits to pulp books and purge curricula on the grounds of making education ‘Indianness-centric’.

Bibek Debroy (1955-2024): The polymath policy advisor

He wrote on many things from game theory to Sanskrit epics, and advanced transformative ideas to steer India from planned to market economy.

The art of leaving

At 64, a writer packs up her old row house, piece by piece, and learns what to keep and what to leave behind. Her home had taught her how to let go.

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Physicist Rohini Godbole. She predicted the Drees-Godbole Effect for particle colliders while compelling male scientists to count the missing women in their midst.

Rohini Godbole (1952-2024): The physicist who refused to choose between science and justice

She died as she lived—pursuing both particle physics and gender justice with equal passion at the Indian Institute of Science.

Nandita Jayaraj

Vietnamese soldiers take part in a performance during official celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Dien Bien Phu victory over French colonial forces at a stadium in Dien Bien Phu city on May 7, 2024.

Dien Bien Phu at 70: Blood-soaked battlefield that became a bustling township

Its transformation from a valley of death to a peaceful urban centre encapsulates Vietnam’s journey from colonial subjugation to self-determination.

Mani Shankar Aiyar

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G.N. Saibaba in Hyderabad on August 23, 2024.

G.N. Saibaba’s death is an injustice

What was the real crime of Saibaba? He constantly raised his voice for the human rights of the weak, the oppressed and the wronged by the system.

Sunny day in Ganderbal, a constituency recently won by Omar Abdullah in the Assembly elections. Omar Abdullah’s comeback paints a picture of guarded optimism, with locals torn between hope for change and skepticism about the new government’s limited powers.

Kashmir’s guarded optimism

Omar Abdullah wins election, but can he fix jobs and inflation with less power?

Ratan Tata at a function in Mumbai in October 2019.

Remembering Ratan, the noble businessman

He leaves behind a legacy of humility, innovation, and social responsibility.

A first-time voter shows his inked finger after voting in Udhampur during the final phase of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, October 1, 2024.

Kashmir’s first vote in a decade: Silent voices speak up

Long-time non-voters turned up at polls, changing the region’s power balance and surprising the old guard.

Chairman of India’s Tata Motors, Ratan Tata watches during the unveiling of the Tata Megapixel on March 6, 2012, during a press day ahead of the 82nd Geneva Motor Show in Geneva.

Ratan Tata (1937-2024): Corporate titan who turned India’s biggest conglomerate into global powerhouse

Tata was a pioneer in transforming the Tata Group through acquisitions, while also fostering philanthropy and innovation in India’s economy.

Frontline News Desk

Kris Kristofferson performs on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, on June 23, 2017.

Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024): The Rhodes scholar who became Nashville’s rebel poet

Kristofferson’s dual career as a respected songwriter and Hollywood actor cemented his status as a cultural icon who lived life on his own terms.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

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Readers respond to Frontline articles.

Kashmir was decked up in spring colours, with buds bursting forth into flowers, suggesting a fresh lease of life.

Matters of the heart: A reverie on the banks of the Jhelum

A cogitation on the meaning of love while standing under an ageing chinar in militarised Kashmir.

Straddling multiple discourses and standing on the brink of subversion, Hanif Kureshi (1982-2024) embodied the contradictions inherent in the current state of graffiti and street art in India.

Death of a Daku: How Hanif Kureshi radically altered the Indian street

His work, which often played with time and language, challenged the elitism of art galleries and brought creativity to the masses.

Sanchita Khurana

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