{"id":577,"date":"2004-10-21T21:55:19","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T02:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=577"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"a_legend_is_lai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/a_legend_is_lai\/","title":{"rendered":"A Legend is laid to rest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Weep\" title=\"Weep\" src=\"http:\/\/anna.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/weep.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Koose Muniswamy Veerappan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3758456.stm\">funeral took place<\/a> on Wednesday, at a family burial plot in Moolakudu, Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The BBC&#8217;s Sunil Raman says the police decided not to bury Veerappan in his native village in neighbouring Karnataka state fearing trouble from the large crowds that had gathered there.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;We have been orphaned,&#8221; cried the bandit&#8217;s wife, Muthulakshmi, as she clung to her teenage daughters Prabha and Vidya Rani at the funeral.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The following sentence made me pause, and wonder if something similar would&#8217;ve occurred in <i>this<\/i> country.  Though the gesture was touching, I think not:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The bandit&#8217;s elder brother was allowed out from a life term in jail for aiding Veerappan to attend the rites. He laid a garland as he was closely guarded by police.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also insanely curious about why he was buried vs cremated.  Would anyone more knowledgeable care to edify a girl who gets curious about the most pointless things?  If so, please leave a comment.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n<p>Though some professed relief about the bandit&#8217;s demise, others experienced an opposite set of emotions; said Ravi, a man who went to view Veerappan&#8217;s body before its burial,<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;God will punish those policemen. Veerappan was a good man and he helped the poor,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koose Muniswamy Veerappan&#8217;s funeral took place on Wednesday, at a family burial plot in Moolakudu, Tamil Nadu. The BBC&#8217;s Sunil Raman says the police decided not to bury Veerappan in his native village in neighbouring Karnataka state fearing trouble from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/21\/a_legend_is_lai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}