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

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"

Gandhian social worker Indu Tikekar passes away

Mother Chokie

Feather touch conservationist

Builder of bridges across troubled waters

A red politician who saw opportunity in green

A chief minister who gave autonomy to environment regulators

Cooperative in spirit

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

Obituary: Coluthur Gopalan (1918-2019)

Father of nutrition science in India dies in Chennai

Obituary: Amit Sengupta (1958 to 2018) was a powerful voice for health equity

His optimism and persistence will inspire generations of activists

A pioneer in many ways

Innovative administrator

IAS officer R Gopalakrishnan made development work for people

Chella Krishnamurthy, 57, murdered

Amulya K N Reddy: A socially responsible maverick

Scientist who took science out of the lab to meet developmental needs

Remembering Vimal Bhai: The environmental activist, social justice warrior and an inspiration

Bhai was crucial in bringing institutional changes in environmentalism in India

Mr Verghese, you live on through your words

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

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 …

A recorder of history

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

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 …

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 …