Sudden passing: Shanmugam (in black) with a group of workers from India watching the live transmission of Jayalalithaa’s wake on television in Little India, George Town.
PETALING JAYA: When Malaysian-born actress Shantini Thema touched down in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu in India, she found a city in mourning.
The Tourism Malaysia ambassador to South India saw a mass of mourners lining the streets towards the Rajaji Hall in Chennai where the body of their beloved Amma, the state Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, lay in repose.
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