So long, Nemai Ghosh; Goodbye, Satish Gujral - gentle men of art

Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's "Boswell"; History will remember Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge

Nemai Ghosh (1934-2020)
 

In July 2018, Nemai Ghosh wrote me an email announcing the news of his death. We had been working on a project with erratic, flexible deadlines, and he was frustrated about its lack of progress. Leading news channels, he wrote, had “struck gold with this news” but “to their disappointment, they found me working at my desk”. Nemaida often employed both humour and sarcasm, and I was unsure whether he had made up the “news” to get me to rally faster.

Nemaida’s misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray’s “Boswell”; a theatre artiste-turned amateur