![]() ![]() He pumps them for information that they’re unwilling to yield-though perhaps they know nothing at all. Ousep becomes convinced that the secret of his son’s demise lies with two of his friends, Sai and Somen, so he pursues them relentlessly, almost to the verge of stalking. In one disturbing series, Unni depicted friends and family as corpses, and he had cryptically confessed to a friend: “I know a corpse.” Another series also preys on Ousep’s mind, a sequence of cartoons with “bubbles” for dialogue, though Unni had not had time to ink in the words, so the story he intended to create remains forever perplexing and elusive. ![]() ![]() Unni had died at the age of 17 and had shown some talent as an artist, especially as a cartoonist, so Ousep starts to scrutinize some of his son’s cartoons, hoping to find hints of his fate. There’s no question that Unni had some strange quirks, but it’s not clear to Ousep whether his views and behavior were unconventional or bizarre enough to sustain a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Ousep Chacko searches for the meaning of the death of his son Unni, who three years earlier had fallen-or perhaps thrown himself?-off a balcony.Ī reporter with United News of India, Ousep has become obsessed with discovering the events surrounding his son’s death. ![]()
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