The newly-elected president of the DMK, M K Stalin will not be as towering a personality as Muthuvel Karunanidhi. However, he will be seen as a more inclusive leader than his father. Stalin doesn’t believe in berating those who have faith in God and religion, especially Hinduism, which practice...
The BJP is working overtime to stitch a pre-poll alliance with the DMK for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as it is convinced that a tie-up with the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu may not yield the desired results. PM Narendra Modi’ s re-election plan may hinge on getting at least 30 seats from Tamil...
Let us face it. Kerala is facing its worst ever floods. The full dimensions of the crisis will unfold for a long time to come. It’s everyone’s duty to do their best to help that state in this hour of unprecedented disaster. The rainfall in Kerala is still high. Even on Aug 18, the rainfall was...
Leader of Naam Tamilar Katchi Seeman has acquired a small but youthful support base in parts of Tamil Nadu with his Tamil nationalist platform. In this Q&A with inmathi.com, he fields questions on his political beliefs. As a Tamil nationalist, how do you see India’s Independence Day? Tamil...
What began as a condolence meeting for DMK president M Karunanidhi at party headquarters, Anna Arivalayam, on August 14, 2018, ended up as a show of strength by working president and Karunandhi’s son M K Stalin, indicating that the party was almost fully behind him, while his estranged brother...
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...
In history, rarely, we find a phenomenon like DMK President Kalaingar M. Karunanidhi. For some the left brain would be dominant and for others the right brain. Kalaingar Karunanidhi was an exception to this. For him, both sides were equally strong. Be it logical thinking in running the...
