It was the afternoon of June 14, 2020, four months into the Covid lockdown. Suddenly, social media platforms and news websites were flooded with messages, an outpouring of love for an actor who had just passed.
This was Sushant Singh Rajput: the performer, dancer and self-made star, the engineer and philosophy enthusiast who spoke with wide-eyed wonder about scientific abstractions. He was as much a man who would theorise on the universe’s infiniteness as he was a boy with dreams to be the “next Shah Rukh Khan”.
