“O'Cracy, D E M, beloved husband of T Ruth, loving father of L I Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justicia, died on June 25.”
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Clipping of the 'Death' Note[/caption]
This particular ‘death’ note had appeared in the obituary column of The Times of India on June 26, 1975. It was the most celebrated item of that time which was anonymously placed in the newspaper. The creator of this; an outside journalist, Ashok Mahadevan had to shave his beard to escape detection post the TOI’s submission to a police inquiry.
This is just one instance, there were many instances which followed during the era of press censorship when the free