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Funeral with police honours

Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Government has decided to give a funeral with police honours to G. Devarajan Master in Paravur, his native place, at 10 a.m. on March 17. His body will be brought here by flight at 10 a.m. on Thursday. It will be kept in the VJT Hall till 4 p.m. for the public to pay homage. It will be taken to Paravoor after that.

Governor R.L. Bhatia has mourned the death of Devarajan. In a message, the Governor said he was deeply saddened by the demise of the renowned music director. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said that Devarajan Master's life was dedicated to music. He tried to delve deep into the intricacies of music and worked hard to achieve perfection. All the best songs heard by Kerala were the result of his penance. Those songs would therefore be immortal. They would remain in the mind of the Malayali forever.

The Kerala People's Arts Club (KPAC) pointed that in the fifties when it gave a new dimension to the Malayalam theatre with its play `Ningalenne Communistakki,' the songs penned by O.N.V. Kurup and tuned by Devarajan Master were its life. It was the songs with Malayalam flavour tuned by him which gave dynamism to most of the plays presented by the KPAC.

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