Authorities breaking open a bedsit (a studio apartment) in London, 2006, made a grim discovery. On the sofa, lay the skeletal remains of a 40-year-old woman (38 when she was dead), unnoticed for close to three years by neighbours, family (four sisters),...

'Mahanati' Savitri continues to be in the news, perhaps for the reason that she was the greatest female actress of an era in which the 'superstar' tags were alien, or perhaps for the ugly fight between siblings taking pot-shots at each other to keep their parents'...