Deaths are causing consternation in the politicalscape, the latest being the demise of grand old Congressman of West Bengal, A B A Ghani Khan Chaudhuri.

The other day Karnataka's film icon Rajkumar passed away, leaving a trail of devastation and vandalism by his so-called fans. Rajkumar was also in the limelight as he was abducted by the-then forest brigand Veerappan. That time Rajkumar was lucky to have walked off to freedom at the intervention of various agencies. Ransom money also would have been paid, although official version denied such payment.

What remains ununderstandable is the veneration of his fans the way they did.Having a last glimpse of the mortal remains is a worthy gesture. Running after the cortege, causing hurt to others, setting fire to vehicles,throwing stones all speak of the violent nature of worship. There should be no place for such response in a civil society.

In Kerala, Eachara Warrier breathed his last,without knowing what had happened to his son Rajan who was done to death in police custody. Alas, the body of the young man was not given over to the father. No one knows what happened to the body.

Warrier thought the Communists were body and soul with his pleas. But when it came to political alignments, the very Communists colluded with DIC(K) of K Karunakaran, who was the Home Minister when Rajan was taken into custody alleging Naxal connections.Lately, the Communists discarded Karunakaran.

Warrier's death will have some political fall-out.

Death is not the end of everything. It engenders the beginning of fall-outs.