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K.K. Mahajan (right) with Mrinal Sen in a pharmacy in the director's neighbourhood during the shooting of 'Ek Din Prati Din' (1979).-SUBHASH NANDY

Enduring image

K.K. Mahajan, who passed away on July 13, enriched Indian cinema with imaginative camerawork.

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Benodebehari Mukherjee.-

Versatile genius

Benodebehari Mukherjee's art came out of a grand detachment and an awareness of nature's cycle.

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TURKISH NOVELIST ORHAN Pamuk in Istanbul. A file picture.-MURAD SEZER/AP

Pamuk's battles

Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a master at mixing known genres and styles.

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Bismillah Khan at a concert in Bangalore in May 2005.-K. BHAGYA PRAKASH

Khan of shehnai

Peerless shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan leaves behind a repertoire of sublime music.

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Agent of death

IT is impossible not to be personal. I remember April 30, 1975. My laboratory partner rushed in, announcing: "There are celebrations. Vietnam is liber

In pursuit of a dream

Einstein's thoughts went far beyond the frontiers of science: he was a symbol of the struggle for peace, social justice and socialism.

Bernal, 50 years after

SOMETIME in the mid-1960s, a special meeting of the Soviet Academy of Science had been convened, with the sole agenda to discuss a book: Science in Hi

Tracking Venus

The transit of Venus, which led to the calculation of the Astronomical Unit, has evoked tremendous interest among the scientific community through the

A scientist for peace

A tribute to Dorothy Hodgkin, scientist, peace activist and a friend of India, on the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8.

Bateshwar, 1942

IT was August 1942. Mahatma Gandhi had given his 'Do or Die' call, unleashing the last mass struggle for freedom from British rule. On August 9, all t

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The relevant provisions

AS per the judgment in the Special Judge's trial No. 3 of 1943, the Bateshwar incident was a case under Sections 147 and 436/149 of the Indian Penal C

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The last straw

THE lady has finally broken her silence. But she has yet to speak. After months of feverish speculation on "will she or won't she," the imperiously ti

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