Sitaram Yechury, the former Rajya Sabha MP and CPI(M) general secretary who died Thursday, was ideologically sound, politically committed, socially acceptable, and culturally refined, writes his colleague Md Salim.
The two-term chief minister of West Bengal, the poster boy of reform in the Left who didn’t care if the cat was black or white as long as it caught mice, has now passed into history.
The most painful thing about his departure is its timing: he leaves his people and the country just as they need his calm, sober, humble and infinitely self-effacing approach.
Jaffee worked as a professional cartoonist for a record 77 years, from 1942 till 2020, which earned him a place in the Guinness World Records. He retired at the age of 99.
Britain’s longest reigning monarch, who died Thursday, had visited India thrice in 1961, 1983 & 1997, with the last trip even causing friction between her & then UK PM Tony Blair.
Billionaire investor Jhunjhunwala died of cardiac arrest at 62. Called the ‘Big Bull’, he made some of his largest wealth by being a bear, he told ThePrint last year.
Mansur couldn’t pursue music until he was 16 because his father didn’t want him to suffer economic hardships. So he chose the next best thing: English literature.
Colleagues remember Chittranjan Bhatia, 86, as a father figure and avowed geneticist who placed special emphasis on how science could translate into more income for farmers.
To appreciate Vinod Dua, who passed away Saturday, was to be a creature of the eighties and nineties, way before TV news became a soap opera post-2000.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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