Muslim MP performs Brahmin professor’s last rites in Karnataka

Syed Naseer Hussain, a Congress Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka, performed the last rites of a Brahmin professor who died due to Covid-19 on May 5. On Tuesday, he immersed the professor’s ashes at Paschima Vahini. Prof Savitri Vishwanathan (80) was a former head of the department of Chinese and Japanese Studies in Delhi University. She was like my mother, Hussain told TOI.