Adieu

Agha Shahid Ali
Poet -- translator -- without a post office

Ahmed Shah Masood
The Lion of Panjshir died just weeks before his life’s mission wasaccomplished.

Anthony Quinn
Alpha male actor. Big, booming, inimitable

Ashok Kumar
The word "evergreen" was invented for him.

Asiaweek
The first Asian newsweekly was an unlikely victim of the global recession.

B.K. Nehru
Revered diplomat.

Behram Contractor
For decades, Busybee interpreted the world for Bombayites, every day.

Christian Barnard
South African surgeon who performed the first heart transplant.

Devi Lal
Haryana bman, former Deputy PM, universal Tau.

Dewang Mehta
He was the Indian software industry’s one-man army.

Douglas Adams
Author and galaxy hitch-hiker, who told us the meaning of life, the universe andeverything.

G.K. Moopanar
Wily kingmaker.

George Harrison
The music lives on, within us, without you

Indrajit Gupta
Aristocrat, Communist, Parliamentarian.

Jack Lemmon
An actor and a gentleman.

Jitendra Prasada
Congressman unawed by the Sonia mystique.

Joseph Allen Stein
Architect who built far more than India's Steinabad

Katherine Graham
Gutsy Washington Post publisher brought a US President down.

Ken Kesey
Merry prankster who flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

King Birendra Bikram Shah Dev
And many members of the Nepal Royal family. What more can be said about that massacre?

Madhavrao Scindia
Royal politician

Mohammed Yunus
Machiavellian friend of Indira Gandhi.

Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Humphrey finally leaves Whitehall.

Pankaj Roy
Batsman, holder of world partnership record.

Phoolan Devi
She became an idea bigger than her self

Pradeep Kumar
Actor, the quintessential Shah Jahan.

R.K. Narayan
The chronicler of Malgudi, and the first Indian writer in English on the globalarena.

Sir Don Bradman
Quite simply, the greatest cricketer ever

Sivaji Ganesan
Unique thespian, both cinematic and Indian

Subroto Mitra
Cinematographer who defined Satyajit Ray’s visual style.

V.N. Gadgil
One of the last of the intellectual-politician breed.

Vijayaraje Scindia
Imperial eminence grise of Indian politics.

Win Chadha
Bofors middleman.

William Hewlett
Computer visionary who created Hewlett-Packard... and Silicon Valley.

(Please also see Portraits)