20th October 1999

Reaching Tuticorin at about three in the morning we learnt that the burial would have to be done immediately and that too without the priest, for it was against the church rules to conduct a burial at night. Since it was already too late to keep the decaying body we had to burry him with out any service. Vijayan’s mother has not seen the body of her only son, nor have any of the relatives. Now he is sleeping in his grave at such a very young age while the life should have still been there for him.