India loses three gems Dr V Shanta, Narendra Luther and Narsingh Rao
By M Somasekhar| Published: 20th January 2021 8:47 pm IST
M Somasekhar
Hyderabad: India lost one of its most prominent, tireless and endearing cancer specialist in Dr V Shanta at the ripe age of 93 in Chennai.
In Hyderabad, the city lost its most informed and raconteur of its history, a man of humour and full of life, Mr Narendra Luther at the age of 89.
While Dr Shanta was a low profile, focussed and dedicated doctor and scientist caring for patients and finding cures against cancer for 7 decades, Luther, an IAS officer, was in the limelight with his postings, writings and deeds for almost half a century.
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Ved Mehta, an Eclectic Writer of Prose Whose Disability Didn t Prevent Him from Seeing the World
A tribute by a younger writer and longstanding admirer who was greatly inspired by Mehta.
Ved Mehta. Photo: YouTube screengrab
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The writer Ved Mehta has died. He was 86. He will be remembered in India for his moving account of his childhood â at the age of three, he became blind after suffering from an attack of meningitis. He was admitted by his affluent doctor father at the Dadar School for the Blind. After a distinguished scholarly career that took him from Pomona College in California to Oxford University and then to Harvard, he joined