India lost one of its most enduring visual voices on Sunday when legendary photographer Raghu Rai passed away in Delhi at the age of 83. Often described as the ‘father of Indian photography’ and ‘father of Indian photojournalism,’ Rai spent more than six decades training his lens on the subcontinent’s joys, tragedies, and contradictions with an intimacy few could match. A protégé of the great Henri Cartier-Bresson, who nominated the then-young photojournalist to join the prestigious Magnum Photos collective in 1977, Rai went on to produce over 18 books and have his work published in Time, Life, The New York Times and The New Yorker, among others. His iconic image capturing the haunting aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy — including the body of a child with half-open eyes — brought global attention to that disaster, and his portraits of Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and the Bangladesh Liberation War remain among the most indelible documents of modern Indian history.…