French author Dominique Lapierre, some of whose most celebrated works focused on India, died at the age of 91 on Sunday, AFP reported. His wife Dominique Conchon-Lapierre told the French newspaper Var-Matin that the author died of old age. She added that he was “at peace and serene since Dominique is no longer suffering”. 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. Born on July 30, 1931, Lapierre’s most popular...