Mumbai: Dilip Saab

At Winston Churchill’s funeral, there was a moment that history remembers.

As his coffin was carried out of Westminster Abbey—down ancient stone steps toward a barge waiting on the Thames—a special group of pallbearers had been chosen from across the armed services of Great Britain. Halfway down, one sailor fractured his ankle. For a split second, it seemed the coffin might fall.

Later, officials asked him, How did you manage to go on?

The sailor answered simply:

“I would have carried him all over London.”

That is how I feel about Dilip Saab.

Born Yusuf Khan, renamed by destiny when he entered cinema, he became something far larger than an actor. He emerged as the embodiment of the plural soul of India. That plurality was not asserted—it was lived. Look at his wo

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