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April 7, 2005


The Fight Over OV Vijayan’s Ashes

When cartoonist and modernist writer OV Vijayan recently passed away recently, a huge crowd of mourners attended the public service and high government officials noted his death with condolences. Now the family is fighting over the final dispensation of the ashes, with a nephew refusing to release the late cartoonist's physical remains for anything other than immersion in the Ganga. Smart readers will now be asking themselves: Does immersion in ink count?
 
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