Rush Hour: Pope Francis dies at 88, artist Anita Dube accused of unauthorised use of poem and more

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Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died at the age of 88 on Monday. He had been discharged from a hospital in Rome in March after being treated for pneumonia in both lungs for several weeks.

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina, Francis was elected as the position in March 2013 after Pope Benedict XVI resigned. He was archbishop of Buenos Aires between 1998 and 2013. The church’s cardinals will hold a conclave to elect his successor.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Francis would be remembered as a “beacon of compassion, humility and spiritual courage”. Read on.

Poet Aamir Aziz has accused artist Anita Dube of using his poem, Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega, without authorisation in works displayed at a recent exhibition in Delhi. In response, Dube said that she realises she had made an “ethical lapse not checking with Aamir using words from his poem” and had offered to correct this by remuneration.

In a social media post, Aziz said he was informed on March 18 that phrases from the poem had been “stitched into a work on display” by Dube in her exhibition, which was titled...

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