Mr Verghese, you live on through your words

The eminent journalist was closely linked to the evolution of environment and development journalism in India

Interpreter of myth

Levi-Strauss changed the way anthropology views tribal people

Baba Amte: The inspiring gardener

Arthur C Clarke foretold many current advances in communication

Remembering Virendra Kumar: a humanist, botanist and scholar

Associated with the Chipko movement, Kumar was a botanist with a difference. He saw elements of botany as part of natural evolution intertwined …

Gandhian to the core

Radha Ben remembers the noted economist and thinker who passed away on November 14

The voice of fishers

He championed fishers’ rights and conservation

Farmer who nearly became Jat-Mahatma

Tikait’s appeal had to do with earthiness and instinct

Ivan Illich (1926-2002)

"His thought leads out of the prison of routinized, sterile, preconceived notions"

A recorder of history

Photographs taken by Sunil Janah have shaped representations of the Bengal famine for decades

The water bearer

ANNA HAZARE bids a heavy-hearted farewell to the late Vilasrao Salunkhe, better known as 'pani baba'. Salunkhe's revolutionary concept of '…

Theoretical physicist E C G Sudarshan passes away

A professor at the University of Texas, he was nominated for Nobel Prize several times. If found true, his theory of particles travelling faster …

Gandhian social worker Indu Tikekar passes away

Mother Chokie

Feather touch conservationist

Builder of bridges across troubled waters

Fidel Castro: A champion of public health

Few would dispute the outstanding successes the Cuban healthcare system has achieved since Fidel and his comrades led the country’s …

Ashish Bose: a man who counted

India’s foremost demographer had a lively interest in a host of societal issues, specially the state of the aam admi

A red politician who saw opportunity in green

A chief minister who gave autonomy to environment regulators

A river’s worthy son

Veerbhadra Mishra dedicated his spiritual quest and scientific calling to cleaning the Ganga

J Jayalalithaa: Tamil Nadu's beloved Amma

The “Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu” has managed to leave a state that is among India’s top five in social and economic indicators

G Nammalvar, messiah of organic revolution

G Nammalvar was one of a kind, a messiah of farmers who was revered as a saint-teacher by his followers. He was an agriculture scientist, a …

Cooperative in spirit

Verghese Kurien, the man who made cooperatives an empowering business model

Obituary: Rajendra Kr Pachauri: (20 August, 1940 - 13 February, 2020)

Failings apart, his was the scientific face of fight against climate change as well as its messianic activist face

India has to increase emissions, RK Pachauri told me

The former head of IPCC died at 79 leaving behind a trail of headlines on climate change