Joseph Benedict Prabhu (lovingly known as ‘JB’) breathed his last the evening of 27 September 2021, at their home in Los Angeles; wife Betty Bamberg and Joseph’s daughter Tara were by his bedside when he passed away peacefully. The first…
I first heard of Sheila Bhalla from my friend and colleague at Cambridge University, Ajit Singh, who used to come to Chandigarh every winter to meet his family. Ajit spoke with some awe of ‘Darshan’s chain-smoking Canadian wife who teaches…
Noted scholar and activist Gail Omvedt died after a long illness on 25 August 2021 in Kasegaon, Sangli district, Maharashtra, which she had made her home since the 1970s. In its obituary of the noted scholar, the CPI(M) recognised her…
A memoriam for an academic in a scholarly journal like Social Scientist must be of a different tone and tenor than what I pen here for Nabila Sadiq. For me she was, first and foremost, a person, a very beautiful…
When Dwijendra Narayan Jha (‘DN’ to his friends and admirers) passed away in his sleep on 4 February 2021, Indian history lost one of its most devoted servitors – one deeply immersed in sources and yet as immensely clearheaded. DN,…
Professor Sunil Kumar, distinguished historian and teacher, passed away on 17 January 2021 at the age of sixty-four. He had been unwell for some time, but there was nothing to indicate that the end was so near. Sunil Kumar had…
C.P. Bhambri (1933–2020) Chandra Prakash Bhambri, the eminent political scientist and Emeritus Fellow of Jawaharlal Nehru University who passed away in November 2020, was one of the last remaining links to an era that is now decisively over. That was…
In a little over six months, two outstanding teachers-researchers in the field of Economics have left us. N. Krishnaji, 83, passed away in Hyderabad last year on 6 November and A. Vaidyanathan, 89, in Coimbatore on 10 June this year.
Professor Arjun Dev (1938–2020): Historian, Visionary and a Great Human Being This is a tribute to Arjun Dev, affectionately called Arjun by his colleagues and friends. While writing this tribute, I have yet to come to grips with the fact…
Nukta-daan, nukta-sukhan, nukta-shanaas Paak dil, paak zaat, paak sifaat It is difficult to speak about someone who personified life itself and lent vibrancy to whatever he touched. He was at all times involved, responsive, innovative, thought-provoking. He was an institution-builder.