Awarded
Kuldip Nayar
Departed
Rajendra Raghuvanshi
French novelist and thinker Maurice Blanchot, 95. A hermit-like figure of fuzzy politics, he spanned inter-war nationalism and the radical dissent on Algeria and May ’68.
Listed
Fidel Castro & Yasser Arafat, among the world’s richest rulers, by Forbes, with assets estimated at $110 mn and $300 mn. They figure much below despots and monarchs, though.
Departed
Malayala Manorama
Arrested
Shiek Mohd Taha, one of the five founders of the militant group Hamas. The arrest signals a shift in Israel’s line on radical ideologues of the Intifada.
Honoured
M.S. Murthy
Selected
Studio Daniel Libeskind’s design to rebuild at the wtc site in NY.
