Many personalities including Indira Gandhi, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, Lal Pratap Singh, Sumitranandan Pant, Brajesh Singh, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Dinesh Singh were associated with Kalakankar.
He died 31 October 1966 and Svetlana brought his ashes to Kalakankar to be immersed in the Ganges.