French author Dominique Lapierre, some of whose most celebrated works focused on India, died at the age of 91 . 

• In 1975, Lapierre co-authored Freedom at Midnight with American writer Larry Collins – an account of the last days of British rule in India, the initial few months of the country’s independence and the death of Mahatma Gandhi.
• Lapierre’s most popular work Is Paris Burning? was also co-authored with Collins and was published in 1965.
•  The book traced the events of the Second World War leading up to the period in 1944 when Nazi forces of Germany seized control of Paris.