After attending a seminar on gender and social change on December 5 at the University of Madras, writer Salma and I impulsively decided to hop across the road and pay a visit to J Jayalalithaa’s memorial.
It was Jayalalithaa’s first anniversary and our first visit to the memorial. A particular image at MG Ramachandran’s memorial – which, incidentally, was not as crowded as Jayalalithaa’s was – caught our eye. An old lady, blissfully oblivious to the environment around her, was loudly singing hit numbers from MGR’s movies, gesticulating her hands wildly. Throughout, her gaze was transfixed at the place where MGR’s face would have been resting.
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