Kenneth Arrow, a brilliant economic mind and a Nobel winner to whom the discipline owes great intellectual debt, has died at 95 at his Palo Alto California home.
Sumegha’s love for Kashmir and the desire to probe beyond the official line set her apart from beat reporters.
‘I am a man of emergencies, I need to be on the move, to be where the suffering is,’ Edhi told the BBC after the US immigration confiscated his passport in 2008.
Organised quizzing had seldom been conducted in India until O’Brien held an open formal quiz competition in a small church hall in Calcutta in 1967.
A phenomenal average of 60.33 and a 'victim' Of Indian Cricket’s Dirty Politics
He watched, and covered, more than 400 Test matches and numerous One-Day Internationals from every nook and cranny of the cricketing globe.
Love? - ?between lovers, friends, a mother and her new-born baby, a family sitting down to a meal? - was one of the recurring major themes of ?th?e British artist's work.
The multifaceted doyen of South Indian cinema passes into the ages.
MS Viswanathan’s passing legacy is a vault of world music he ushered into Tamil and south Indian cinema
Despite Mother Teresa’s enormous shadow following her everywhere, Sister Nirmala created her own identity
Many eulogies have been written after her death at the ripe age of 94, but Sitara Devi will live on through the hundreds of young girls from “respectable” families who learn Kathak and aspire to perform on stages national and international.
The world has lost one of the greatest judges and jurists of all time, who was also one of the finest human beings
I knew the name much before I knew what a mandolin was or had come across any of the man’s works. And it was almost always accompanied by “prodigy” or “genius”.
My first years in America were dark and depressing, till I found Robin Williams and Dead Poets Society, and learnt about a different side of America.
That's how Ratan Tata described the man the world knew as the King of Jamshedpur
This obituary was published 31 years, one month and 7 days prematurely: in the Sunday Observer dated February 13, 1983.
In real life he was a very complex person, as complex as Israel. His personal history is interwoven with the history of Israel.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.