M.F. Husain, one of the pioneers of modern Indian art and hailed as the "Picasso of India", died in a London hospital on Thursday after a heart attack. He was 95.
CHENNAI: C. Bhaskaran, first all-India president of the Students Federation of India (SFI) and editor of the Chintha Publishers of the CPI(M) in Kerala, died here on Saturday. He was 65 and is survived by his wife Thulasi Bhaskaran, former news editor, Deshabhimani, and sons Dinesh and Manesh.
JYOTHI BASU-Brief Life Sketch. Chronology
· Born on July 8, 1914 in as Jyotirindra Basu into an upper middle-class Bengali family in Calcutta. His father, Nishikanta Basu, was a doctor from the village of Barodi in Dhaka District, East Bengal (now in Bangladesh), while his mother Hemalata Basu was a housewife.
Remembering Comrade Surjeet
Article From People's Democracy, August 02, 2009
Prakash Karat
IT is a year since Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet died on August 1, 2008. With this came to an end an eventful life that made a big contribution to the Communist movement in the country.
It was a great occasion filled with revolutionary emotions, when I got the opportunity to visit Chicago to pay homage to the valiant memory of the heroic martyrs of Chicago on 6 July 2008 who scarified their life in 1886. They fought for implementation of eight hour day but brutal suppression of their legitimate struggle which evoked strong protests all over the world. The International Labour Congress held in Paris on 14 July 1889 while observing hundredth Anniversary of French Revolution gave a call to observe May 1 as the day of International Solidarity of the working class which led the foundation of May Day all over the world. The Second International which met in Geneva in 1892 endorsed the call.