Departed
Maurice Zinkin
Subhash Gupte, legendary leg-spin googly bowler, at 72. A ‘magician’ in Vinoo Mankad’s words, he got 149 wickets in 36 Tests for India (’51-’62), sharing the record for scalping 9 in an innings with Jasu Patel, till Kumble did a perfect ten. Gupte settled and married in Trinidad.
Resigns
Kalraj Mishra, as president of UP BJP. Though he quit owning responsibility for the party’s debacle in the state, he blamed infighting for it.
Honoured
Manish Jha
A Very Very Silent Film
Departed
L. Wasserman
Born
Son Adam, to slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and his widow Mariane, in Paris.
Shuts Shop
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