There is a certain thrill about the fantasy that we indulge in refusing to acknowledge the death of certain class of revolutionary leaders and celebrities. It is just not a sense of disbelief but a deliberate act of self deception in assigning to such persons a degree of invincibility and blow up larger than life sizes to their physical frames to convince ourselves that that they cannot be annihilated like other ordinary mortals. What do you make of LTTE supremo V.Prabhakaran’s death or alleged death, as the story goes? It was a bizarre sight of large human frame with the back of the head knocked off and the face puffed up with bulging eyes wide open. The fiery tiger seemed badly mauled. Prabhakaran is dead; long live Prabhakaran! A senior leader from T.Nadu refused to comment because the death was unconfirmed. Television panelists discussed how the eye brow was thicker than ‘original’ Prabhakaran’s; there was no trace of a facial twitch that he always had; why was an identity card aro...