Fame
Vasanthan achieved posthumous fame as the first Black Tiger of 240 and one of the first suicide bombers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. A statue was erected in his honour, at the site of his attack in the Nelliyadi Madya Maha Vidyalayam, in 2002.
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Famous quotes containing the word fame:
“...I, his wife, rested and was warmed in the sunlight of his loyal love, and glorious fame, and now, even though his beautiful life has gone out, it is as when some far off planet disappears from the heavens, the light of his great fame still falls upon and warms me.”
—Julia Dent Grant (1825–1902)
“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)