Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Sunday, April 26, 2026 — the peak day of the weekend at 29°C with just 5% rain, the strongest cultural Sunday of the month. Paulista Aberta closes the avenue from the Praça do Ciclista to the Praça Oswaldo Cruz from 9h to 16h. The MASP runs its […]
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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Sunday, April 26, 2026 — the peak day of the weekend at 31°C with just 5% rain, and the headline night of the month. The Weeknd plays the Estádio Nilton Santos at 21h with Anitta on the After Hours Til Dawn Tour — gates 16h, capacity […]
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Raghu Rai, the legendary chronicler of India’s many moods and moments, passed away in the early hours of Sunday at a private hospital, bringing to a close a luminous life that helped shape the visual memory of a nation. He was 83.
For over five decades, Rai’s camera moved with quiet intensity across the country — through bustling bazaars and silent bylanes, along the fault lines of history and into the sanctum of power. His images revealed India in all its contrasts: its tenderness and turmoil, its fragility and force. Whether capturing the intimacy of everyday life or the magnitude of historic events, his work transcended documentation, becoming a profound meditation on a nation in motion.
His son, Nitin Rai, said the veteran photographer had fought a long and determined battle with cancer. Diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago, Rai had initially responded well to treatment, even as the illness later spread to his stomach and was brought under control. In recent weeks, however, the disease advanced to his brain, compounded by age-related complications.
He is survived by his wife Gurmeet, son Nitin, and daughters Lagan, Avani and Purvai — his family the steady, unseen presence behind a life devoted to art, patience and observation.
Deeply saddened by the passing of Shri Raghu Rai, one of India’s foremost photographers and a towering photojournalist for over five decades.
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) April 26, 2026
A Padma Shri awardee, his powerful coverage of the Bangladesh Liberation War, along with several photographs of eminent personalities… pic.twitter.com/KPBpOQwPjZ
Widely regarded as one of India’s finest photographers, Rai’s evocative black-and-white frames and deeply human storytelling earned him global recognition. His association with Magnum Photos placed him among the world’s most respected visual storytellers, while his long innings with India Today helped define the visual grammar of contemporary Indian journalism.
A recipient of the Padma Shri, Rai’s powerful coverage of the Bangladesh Liberation War remains etched in public memory, as do his iconic portraits of leaders such as Indira Gandhi — images that have come to symbolise entire eras.
Beyond awards and acclaim, it was Rai’s instinctive eye — empathetic, unhurried and unflinching — that defined his genius. His photographs did not merely freeze time; they invited reflection, stirred emotion, and endured.
Among those paying tribute was Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who described Rai as a towering figure in Indian photojournalism. Expressing deep sorrow, Kharge said Rai’s work had left an indelible imprint on the nation’s collective consciousness and extended condolences to his family, friends and students.
"Deeply saddened by the passing of Shri Raghu Rai, one of India’s foremost photographers and a towering photojournalist for over five decades," Kharge said in a post on X.
The last rites will be held at the Lodhi Crematorium at 4 pm on Sunday, where admirers, colleagues and loved ones will gather to bid farewell.
With Raghu Rai’s passing, India loses not just a pioneer of photography, but a quiet poet of light and shadow — one who transformed fleeting moments into timeless memory, and whose images will continue to speak long after the lens has been set down.
With PTI inputs
Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Saturday, April 25, 2026 — the Pinacoteca free day and the strongest cultural Saturday of the month. The Pinacoteca runs zero-cost admission across all three buildings: Pascale Marthine Tayou’s Nocaute fills seven Pina Luz galleries, Macunaíma é Duwid holds Pina Estação, and Cristina Salgado occupies the Octógono. […]
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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Saturday, April 25, 2026 — the cleanest beach day of the month and the cultural peak weekend of April. The CCBB Amano show enters its first full Saturday with the building’s busiest weekend yet expected — get there at 09h or after 17h. The MAR runs […]
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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Wednesday, April 22, 2026 — the first working day after Tiradentes and the return to São Paulo’s normal weekday rhythm. The MASP and Pinacoteca are both open, rodízio resumes with plates 5 and 6 restricted in peak hours, and the B3 reopens for the first time since […]
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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Wednesday, April 22, 2026 — the first working day after Tiradentes and the most loaded cultural day of the month. At 09h the CCBB Rio opens Yoshitaka Amano — Além da Fantasia, the largest show of the Japanese artist’s career: 218 original works, including unseen pieces, […]
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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Monday, April 20, 2026 — Tiradentes eve. The federal government declared today a ponto facultativo, and the São Paulo state government (Decreto 70.273) and the city of São Paulo (Decreto 64.862/2025) have both confirmed the suspension of servers’ expediente. Many public offices close entirely, private-sector offices mostly […]
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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Sunday, April 19, 2026. Avenida Paulista closes to traffic for Paulista Aberta — the Sunday Ruas Abertas ritual that turns the city’s most iconic avenue into a walking, cycling, and street-performance corridor from Praça do Ciclista to Praça Oswaldo Cruz. The MASP runs a standard Sunday of […]
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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Sunday, April 19, 2026. IEM Rio 2026 closes at Farmasi Arena with the Counter-Strike Major Grand Final — the loudest single sporting moment on Rio’s April calendar. MAM Rio runs its first weekend Sunday of the Rubem Valentim retrospective, a decade in the making. The MAR […]
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Welcome to your São Paulo daily guide for Saturday, April 18, 2026. The Pinacoteca runs its free Saturday across all three buildings: Pascale Marthine Tayou’s Nocaute fills seven Pina Luz galleries, Macunaíma é Duwid holds Pina Estação, and Cristina Salgado occupies the Octógono — all at zero cost. The MASP is also open with five […]
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Welcome to your Rio de Janeiro daily guide for Saturday, April 18, 2026. MAM Rio opens Rubem Valentim: a ordem do… — the first major retrospective in a decade of the Afro-Brazilian geometric modernist. Rio Fashion Week hits its closing runway at Pier Mauá with Lenny Niemeyer at 21h30. IEM Rio 2026 moves into Day […]
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