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Nightingale of India passes away at 92 – by S VENKAT NARAYAN Source:island.lk NEW DELHI, February 6: India’s legendary playback singer Lata Mangeshkar passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Sunday after a prolonged illness, including Covid complications. She was 92. Muse to some of Indian cinema’s greatest composers, recipient of the country’s highest civilian honour the Bharat Ratna, and the embodiment of Indian femininity on the movie screen for over 50 years, she breathed her last in a hospital, where she was admitted a month ago after testing Covid-positive. Born in 1929 to Marathi classical singer and theatre actor Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar and his Gujarati wife Shevanti in Indore in Madhya Pradesh state, Mangeshkar has sung for over seven generations of female actors in India, with her voice often being described as ‘virginally pure’ and her playback for an actress symbolic of the latter having made it in Bollywood, ...

OBITUARIES Compiled by Victor Melder (E & O.E.) (SEPTEMBER 2019) BAINES – EVA DOROTHY (nee Hawke), wife of Robert “Sonnie” (dec), mother and mother-in-law of Allan (dec), Trevor & Doreen, Kenny & Marguerite, Ronnie & Jacinth and Marcia. Grandmother of Tanya, Adam, Khyam and Kesh, great grandmother of 7, in Qld on August 8, 2019, aged 100 years. (Brisbane Courier Mail, 15.8.2019) GAUDER – YVONNE (nee Vanderwert), wife of late Robyn Gauder, in Melbourne. (Contributed) RAYMOND – RUSSELL OAM, husband of Shirley, father of Chris, Carmie, Anthony and Subi, father-in-law of John, Bryan, Jenni and Rhonda, grandfather of Nicholas, Sam, Alex, Ruby, Danny, Mayah and Charlie, in Perth, on August 25, 2019. (The West Australian, 27.8.2019) COOPER – MICHELLE, wife of Terry, mother of Michael and Jy, mother-in-law of Ebonie and Amica, grandmother of Jaxon. Daughter of Hilarion and Pam Caspersz, sister of Jacqueline, Elise, Vanessa, Amarilla and Jerome, ...