October 15, 2025, marked 40 years since ace cricketer and tennis player Cotah Ramaswami walked out of his home in Chennai, never to return. On that day in 1985, at 89 years, he left behind his children and a wide circle of relatives, all wondering what could have prompted him to renounce worldly life so abruptly and inexplicably.

It took seven long years for the authorities to officially declare him “assumed dead.” The disappearance of Ramaswami, a former double international, remains a tragic mystery that has never been fully explained.

During the seven years between his disappearance in 1985 and 1992, numerous rumours circulated about Ramaswami — some as far-fetched as claims that he had taken up hermitage in the Himalayas or at Kasi. His immediate family spent considerable time and mo

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