Kolkata bid a tearful goodbye to Mona Saldanha, owner of the iconic Goan-run Saldanha Bakery, on the morning of August 27. Mona was instrumental in introducing Kolkata to the world of cheese puffs, wa...

Rachpal Singh, a former IPS and a two-term MLA in the Mamata Banerjee government, passed away on July 8. According to family sources, the FE Block resident had suffered a cardiac arrest in hospital, t...

He always had a good sense of humour. On one of our England tours, he once quipped “yaar kamaal hain, yahan to kauwe bhi kaale hain. Safed hona chaihiye (Strange that crows are black here. They ...

The second innings saw him play memorable character roles in films such as Kranti, Karma and Shakti. It is often said that Kumar was the first of the Khans. In a sign of the times that were, this Kh...

The obituary pages of local newspapers may be an apt starting point for those looking for clues to the extent of the toll Covid has taken on Gujarat. With each passing day, the obituary columns are b...

Eminent Sinologist Amitendranath Tagore passed away on February 7 at his house facing DL Park. He died in his sleep of cardio respiratory failure. Son of Abanindranath’s eldest son Alokendra, Am...

Shravan Todi, one of the few industrialists who made it big during the two-decade long tenure of Jyoti Basu as the chief minister of Bengal, breathed his last on Monday. He was 77. Like many of his i...

Ved Mehta, a longtime writer for The New Yorker whose best-known work, spanning a dozen volumes, explored the vast, turbulent history of modern India through the intimate lens of his own autobiography...

A school head who inspired hundreds of students over the years to work for the community around the campus and beyond died on Tuesday morning.  Perminder Dasani, the administrator of C...

Diego Maradona meant many things to many people. For some, he was the greatest human being to have kicked a football, to some he was a flawed genius not in the same league as a Pele, yet others, mainl...