In a stern message to DMK working president and brother M K Stalin, former Union minister M K Alagiri visited the Karunanidhi Samadhi on the Marina to vent his anger against Stalinisation of the DMK in O Paneerselvam style to indicate to the DMK family that he had kept his options open, and...
The death of DMK patriarch Muthuvel Karunanidhi known as Kalaignar has put his family and the party under enormous pressure to keep their fold together given the contradictions and conflicting interests among several family members. Karunanidhi’s son M K Stalin, currently working president, is...
He Used One-Liners to Reach the Masses One night, after concluding a public meeting in Coimbatore, Karunanidhi called up the Murasoli (DMK party organ) office in Chennai and asked the news editor whether the report on his speech had arrived, and whether the article was ready for the banner...
Used One-Liners to reach the masses One night, after concluding a public meeting in Coimbatore, Karunanidhi called up the Murasoli (DMK party organ) office in Chennai and asked the news editor whether the report on his speech had arrived, and whether the article was ready for the banner story...
The High Court decision on having the Karunanidhi Memorial come up at Anna Memorial is a victory for the DMK in the decades-old battle with the AIADMK. Just as the news broke, M K Stalin, Kanimozhi as well as A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran were seen breaking into tears at Rajaji Memorial where...
The DMK has officially sought the setting up of Kalaignar Memorial next to Anna Memorial where the body of Karunanidhi could be buried, deputy leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly and senior leader of the party, Durai Murugan said in Chennai on August 7 soon after the death of MK....
Muthuvel Karunanidhi (born as Daksinamoorthy on 3 June 1924 to to Muthuvel and Anjugam) served India with distinction in several fields, both at the national level and in the State. A prolific Tamil writer and orator, Karunanidhi, fondly known as Kalaignar, was chief minister of Tamil Nadu for...
The condition of DMK president and former chief minister M Karunanidhi deteriorated on Monday, August 6, 2018, even as doctors admitted that there was a dip. Karunanidhi is undergoing treatment at the Cauvery hospital in Chennai. He was moved to the hospital ICU on July 27 after his pulse rate...
For almost a decade, K Sathyanarayanan has been performing on an instrument that would appear to be totally unsuited to Carnatic music – gamakas. In 2001, he demonstrated how the gamakas, the hallmark of the genre, could be coaxed out of the keyboard, which critics accepted, if with some...
A wave of prayers, demonstrations of camphor-vermilion piety, and mass worship with participation of DMK functionaries and cadres in front of Kauvery hospital where DMK president and self-styled rationalist leader M Karunanidhi is battling for life, has brought about the crumbling of yet...
