On a recent Sunday afternoon, its downtown area was not just languid but funereal.

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With its fuzzed out organ and meandering melody, "Chidiya" initially sounds like an eerily cheerful funereal romp.

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When Mr Ramachandran died, two million people turned out for his funereal.

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Adelaide marked, as cricket writer Sharda Ugra wrote in a fine epitaph, a funereal end to Indian cricket's greatest era.

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For British Hindus this was only one advance in their campaign to be free to practise their religion's full funereal rites.

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Their funereal views of our economic future are rooted in the notion that stateside investment will dry up such that wages and job opportunities will become less bountiful.

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"The atmosphere was funereal but nobody had died, " he said.

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Vultures roost above, adding to the funereal atmosphere.

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The smell was indeed funereal: musty, pungent, depressing.

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Compared with the funereal pall that seemed to envelop the national psyche in April and May, when daily life was made doubly depressing by incessant, repetitive television commercials from celebrities appealing for unity and optimism in the face of disaster, as well as seemingly hourly alarms about radioactive pollution from the Fukushima nuclear plant, life seems to have returned to the patterns, and generally, concerns pre -3.11.

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