The couple exchange garlands and take oath as partners). Born in the Isai Vellalar caste, Karunanidhi, who died in 2018, came from the most backward community of musicians and dancers who perform ...

Scarred early in life by a sense of discrimination based on his birth, M Karunanidhi was driven by a zeal for social justice. The iniquitous nature of the caste system was a dominant theme in his ...

Karunanidhi built his political machine as a crusader for social justice, with policies aimed at helping those at the bottom of India’s rigid Hindu caste hierarchy. Thousands of his supporters ...

Karunanidhi founded the Tamil Nadu Tamil Manavar Mandram, the first student wing of the Dravidian Movement, which campaigned against the notion that Brahmins, the highest caste in Hinduism ...

These ideals found a zealous convert in the young Karunanidhi. He campaigned against the caste supremacy of Brahmins and also opposed a move by the federal government to impose Hindi as an ...

CHENNAI: DMK president M Karunanidhi on Monday demanded the release of caste census as it would be helpful to raise the quantum of reservation for the backward communities and people belonging ...

A day after political parties, including DMK, demanded action against him for allegedly pursuing caste politics, PMK leader S Ramadoss on Tuesday charged DMK chief M Karunanidhi with "disguising ...

Chennai: DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Monday criticised the Centre and the National Statistical Commission for delaying the release of caste census taken up in 2011. In a statement, he said ...

These ideals found a zealous convert in the young Karunanidhi. He campaigned against the caste supremacy of Brahmins and also opposed a move by the federal government to impose Hindi as an ...