Krishna Sobti, Indian author, Died at 93

Krishna Sobti was born on  February 18, 1925 and died on January 25, 2019.
She  was a Hindi fiction writer and essayist.

She  won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi.

Sobti earned the Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Indian literature, in 2017.

She was best known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani, a proud depiction of a wedded lady's sexuality.

Sobti was likewise the beneficiary of the first Katha Chudamani Award, in 1999, for Lifetime Literary Achievement, aside from winning the Shiromani Award in 1981, Hindi Academy Award in 1982, Shalaka Award of the Hindi Academy Delhi and in 2008, her novel Samay Sargam was chosen for Vyas Samman, initiated by the K. K. Birla Foundation.

Considered the grande woman of Hindi writing, Krishna Sobti was conceived in Gujrat, Punjab, presently in Pakistan; she likewise composes under the name Hashmat and has distributed Hum Hashmat, a gathering of pen pictures of scholars and companions.

Sobti's different books are Daar Se Bichchuri, Surajmukhi Andhere Ke, Yaaron Ke Yaar, Zindaginama. A portion of her outstanding short stories are Nafisa, Sikka Badal gaya, Badalom ke ghere.

Sobti Eka Sohabata incorporates her major chosen works.

Some of her works are presently accessible in English and Urdu.

During 2005, Dil-o-Danish, converted into The Heart Has Its Reasons in English by Reema Anand and Meenakshi Swami of Katha Books, won the Crossword Award in the Indian Language Fiction
Translation classification.

Krishna Sobti passed away at 93 years old.

Meshulam Riklis, Israeli businessman, Died at 95

Meshulam Riklis was born on December 2, 1923,  in Istanbul and died on January 25, 2019.
He was an Israeli businessman.

He experienced childhood in Tel Aviv before going to the United States in 1947 with his first spouse,

Judith Stern, with whom he has three youngsters: Simona (Mona), Marcia, and Ira.

Riklis examined arithmetic at Ohio State University, graduating in 1950.

Riklis's first huge activity was as a lesser stock investigator for the Minneapolis venture firm Piper Jaffray.

Subsequent to separating from his first spouse, the 53-year-old Riklis was hitched to the then 23-year-old Pia Zadora on September 18, 1977.

They had two youngsters, Kady and Kristofer. He then financed the film Butterfly, featuring Zadora.

Her acting in the film was ridiculed by entertainers and expert commentators, winning her the Razzie Award for Worst Actress, yet she likewise won the Golden Globe Award as New Star of the Year after an all around pitched press junket paid for by Riklis, additionally facilitated at his own Riviera Hotel.

Meshulam Riklis and Zadora then purchased and destroyed one of Beverly Hills' best known tourist spots, Pickfair Manor, the previous home of quiet film legends Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, to manufacture a bigger home on the site.

They lived there until the point that they separated in 1993.

During 2010, at 86 years old, Riklis wedded his third spouse, Tali Sinai, who was very nearly 40 years his junior.

During 2012, his girl, guidance reporter Simona Riklis Ackerman passed on.

Meshulam Riklis passed away at 95 years old.

Koos Andriessen, Dutch politician and economist, Died at 90

Jacobus Eye "Koos" Andriessen was born on July 25, 1928 and died on January 2019.

He was a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

He joined the Social Economic Council in 1959, giving up that position when he was appointed Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs in 1963.

Koos Andriessen passed away at 90 years old.

Alexandra Svetlitskaya, Footballer, Died at 47

Alexandra Svetlitskaya was born on August 20, 1971 and died on January 23, 2019.

She  was a Russian football midfielder.

She  represented Russia in the 1999 and 2003 World Cups.

vetlitskaya scored an equalizer against England in the 2001 European Championship.

Alexandra Svetlitskaya passed away at 47 years old.

Erik Olin Wright, American Marxist sociologist, Died at 71

Erik Olin Wright was born on February 9, 1947, in Berkeley, California and died on January 23, 2019.

He  was an American analytical Marxist sociologist, specializing in social stratification, and in egalitarian alternative futures to capitalism.

He was known for diverging from classical Marxism in his breakdown of the working class into subgroups of diversely held power and therefore varying degrees of class consciousness.

Wright introduced novel concepts to adapt to this change of perspective including deep democracy and interstitial revolution.

He started making contributions to the intellectual community in the mid-1970s, along with a whole generation of young academics who were radicalized by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

Wright was elected President of the American Sociological Association, in 2012.

Erik Olin Wright passed away at 71 years old, due acute myeloid leukemia.

Aloysius Pang, Singapore actor, Died at 28

Aloysius Pang Wei Chong was born on August 24, 1990 and died on January 23, 2019.

He was a Singaporean actor managed under NoonTalk Media.

Pang  stopped acting at the age of 14 due to teasing.

He made his comeback in 2012 by starring as the lead role in the Singapore Film Timeless Love, which was directed by Lim Koong Hwee and Singaporean celebrity Dasmond Koh.

He made his directorial debut in 2014 by directing the music video of Singapore-based singer Gavin Teo's I Understand (我懂了), which also starred Xu Bin and Kimberly Chia.

Singapore's Ministry of Defense (MINDEF) declared that Pang on January 19, 2019, who was a reservist holding the position of the corporal top of the line (CFC) in the Singapore Army, was genuinely harmed amid a mishap while preparing in New Zealand.

On 23 January, the Minister for Defense Ng Eng Hen discharged a refresh that Pang's condition had declined, getting to be basic after medical procedure, and that Pang had been set in the emergency unit).

Soon thereafter, MINDEF further refreshed that Pang had passed on from his wounds at 8:45 pm Singapore Standard Time at Waikato Hospital, four days after the mishap.

He was in a relationship with actress Jayley Woo until his death.

Aloysius Pang passed away at 28 years old.

Oliver Mtukudzi, Zimbabwean musician, Died at 66

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi was born on September 22, 1952 and died on January 23, 2019.

He was a Zimbabwean musician, businessman, philanthropist, human rights activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Southern Africa Region.

He was considered to have been Zimbabwe's most renowned and internationally recognised cultural icon of all time.

Mtukudzi is the dad of five kids and has two grandkids.

Two of his youngsters are likewise performers.

Mtukudzi's child Sam Mtukudzi, a fruitful performer in his very own right, kicked the bucket in a fender bender in March 2010 and in 2013, he discharged a collection titled "Sarawoga", in tribute to his child.

Mtukudzi was conceived in a group of six.

Oliver Mtukudzi passed away at 66 years old,  at Avenues Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe.