The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has expressed grief on the demise of the legendary writer and cartoonist O.V.Vijayan.

In a message Dr. Singh said that both in literature and in cartoons, Vijjayan developed an idiom of his own which was capable of communicating his uniquely incisive interpretation of the realities his milieu.

In novels like " Khasakinte Ithihaasam" he explored and expanded the boundaries of expression and took the Indian novel to a new level of articulation and sensitivity. The modernism and iconoclastic flavour of his massive output remains relevant and refreshing even years after they first appeared.

Vijayan is a prime example of the fact that Indian languages have created literary icons whose works have played a seminal role in expanding the frontiers of global literary consciousness, Dr Singh added.