People from India

107 people remembered here.

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  Asish Banerjee

  1951 – 2026 · Politician

  Teacher, five-term MLA for Rampurhat and Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Raja Sen

  † 2026 · Bengali film

  Bengali director of Damu and Subarnalata, who won three National Film Awards.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Deva

  1950 – 2026 · Film composer and singer

  Thenisai Thendral, the breeze of sweet music, who carried gaana from the streets of Chennai to Tamils around the world.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Belraj Kalarickal

  † 2026 · Malayalam film and web series director (Kaapi Squad)

  Malayalam filmmaker who brought Kaapi Squad to life and left us two days after its premiere.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sardar Harbans Singh

  † 2026 · Politician

  A National Conference stalwart from Jammu who served in the cabinet from 1996 to 2002.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Ezra Sastry

  † 2026 · Telugu Christian gospel singer

  Lyrical evangelist whose Telugu hymns carried the gospel across two states for five decades.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Nana Patekar

  1951 – 2026 · Actor

  He learned acting from hunger, and gave his fame back to the farmers of Maharashtra.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Ila Arab Mehta

  1938 – 2026 · Gujarati novelist

  Gujarati novelist who gave ordinary women a voice of their own. Live and let live.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Etukuri Krishnamurthy

  1922 – 2026 · Freedom fighter

  A freedom fighter who carried the struggle into a second century of life.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Sumit Sarkar

  † 2026 · Historian

  Historian of modern India who put ordinary people at the centre of the national story.

  3 candles · 1 tributes
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  Bharathiraja

  1941 – 2026 · Film director

  Pioneer of rural Tamil cinema, Padma Shri director known as Iyakkunar Imayam.

  3 candles · 1 tributes