Click to play videoChennai: As the world celebrates the end of LTTE, the tale of two families whose lives were irrevocably changed after an encounter with the LTTE in Bangalore is a far cry.
Ananthamurthy and his wife Jayashree never knew Prabhakaran or anyone from the LTTE personally, but he still changed their lives forever.
In 1991 their home in Konakunte was a hideout for Prabhakaran's aides Sivarasan and Subha after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi..
The house has since been renovated, but still bears bullet marks of the encounter between the NSG and the seven LTTE activists who used it - an encounter dramatized later on the silver screen. For more than 5 years after the shootout the police used the house as an outpost as no tenant was willing to come.
Jayashree said, “Police, people, all those people use to haunt us and all that created fear.”
Eighteen years after Sivarasan died, the incident still resonates in this far-flung neighbourhood of Bangalore, where neighbours and relatives talk of the LTTE house jinx if the residents fall ill or suffer any setback. Well, it's something the people are yet to shrug off, but Prabhakaran's death has brought some amount of closure.
However, that's not the case with Muniyamma, the milk vendor who actually led the police to Sivarasan's hideout..She didn’t get much more than a letter of praise.
Muniyamma said (in Kannada), “I only got Rs 60,000 and that too after one and half years later, though they said the promised reward was Rs 10 lakh.
Today, she's worried over where her next meal is going to come from. Six of her seven cows have been stolen. And the police haven't even bothered to file a case.
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