Chennai, June 11 : Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the icon of the Dravidian movement, was one of the most respected script writers in the Tamil film industry. ...
Read moreChennai, June 11 : In May 2006, 'Dinakaran', the popular Tamil newspaper run by Kalanidhi Maran, carried an opinion poll on who would be the heir apparent of Karunanidhi. The poll projected that ...
Read moreChennai, June 11 : Muthuvel Karunanidhi, or M. Karunanidhi, the longest serving Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, was a champion of equality and worked relentlessly and tirelessly for the poor and the dow ...
Read moreBy Arun Lakshman Chennai, June 11 : Veteran politician late Muthuvel Karunanidhi served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for a record five times between 1969 and 2011, besides being the oppositi ...
Read moreBy Arun Lakshman Chennai, June 11 : "Kalaignar Karunanidhi is my leader," thundered Tamil Nadus most popular politician and matinee idol, M.G. Ramachandran, when an AIADMK MLA addressed him as Karu ...
Read moreBy Arun Lakshman Chennai, June 11 : As the DMK patriarch, Muthuvel Karunanidhi had sworn time and again that he stood for equity and uplift of the downtrodden and poor. That image took a beat ...
Read moreBy Arun Lakshman Chennai, June 11 : Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the stalwart of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) was the longest-serving Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu who won millions of hearts by laun ...
Read moreBy Arun Lakshman Chennai, June 11 : Muthuvel Karunanidhi was born into the Isali Vellar caste in Thirukkuvulai on June 3, 1924. He came from a family of musicians who were from a lower caste and us ...
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