But Karunanidhi’s biggest journalistic defiance was the publication of a cartoon panel. Chellappan, one of the finest cartoonists of Tamil Nadu, created a panel called ‘Metamorphosis ...

DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Saturday demanded the Centre intervene to remove a cartoon depicting the 1965 anti-Hindi agitation by Tamils from school textbooks immediately. Karunanidhi had led the ...

Karunanidhi. While it’s known widely that he always chose black over other ink, only few people know he has drawn cartoons too, for Murasoli. “I still remember how he rushed Vaiko (then V.

Murasoli carried the headline “Indira Gandhi becomes a dictator” in a cartoon depicting her transformation into a Nazi dictator. There was no going back now. Later, in 1994, Karunanidhi ...

Murasoli Maran, Karunanidhi’s nephew, was also arrested because he published a cartoon in Murasoli depicting Gandhi as Adolf Hitler. The DMK’s slogan of “collective rule at the centre, autonomous rule ...

The trademark dark glasses, the so-common-yet-unmissable white dhoti and shirt, unfamiliar tongue, Dravida Munnetra Kazhakam (DMK) leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi has always been an enigma to Indians ...

Before he embraced the politician’s avatar, Karunanidhi was a successful screenwriter. Fuelled by social causes, his rousing scripts were not only political in nature but also appealed to the ...

M Karunanidhi, a writer par excellence, began penning scripts for plays as a 20-year old. Over the years, his plays went on to became a vehicle for propagating principles of the Dravidian movement.