Jairam Ramesh and the poem that defined the Buddha telegraphindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraphindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When, on the evening of May 14, a friend telephoned and informed me about the sad demise of Dr Subrahmanyam Chandrasekharan (Chandru to most of his intimate friends), I thought he had also fallen victim to the dreaded Covid, which had been claiming hundreds of lives every day. When I established contact with family members they told me he died of cardiac arrest. The only consolation being, instead of the authorities cremating the dead body, the family members could perform all religious rites according to family traditions.
As I was reflecting on the irreparable loss caused by Chandru’s death, the famous lines of John Donne came to my mind: “Death, be not proud, though some called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so … one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more, Death, thou shall die”.
Each year, Thomas Hart Benton gave his daughter, Jessie, a painting on her birthday.
Most of them thrilled her, capturing elements that corresponded to that year in her life, from the cat that is in her 1-year-old painting to seashells and ocean views that reflect the summers at Marthaâs Vineyard, to blooming roses, symbolizing June, the month of her birth.
âThere were a couple disappointments,â she said in a recorded interview. âThe Butterfly Chaserâ was one of them, in that, I asked for 10 butterflies. That s what I wanted for my (12th) birthday. I was very into catching butterflies. I could never put the pin in them. And I would let them go. But it was just this passion of being able to catch something so beautiful.
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize announces joint winners for 2020 financialexpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from financialexpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.