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CHENNAI: CM MK Stalin on Thursday announced in the Assembly that a new university named after former CM M Karunanidhi will be established in Kumbakonam in recognition of his contributions to the ...

Batting for state autonomy, Karunanidhi had on April 16, 1974, moved a resolution in the State Assembly and it was adopted. No doubt, DMK founder C N Annadurai (1909-1969), who championed the ...

Sevlam was often described by Kalaignar (Karunanidhi) as his “first child ... and cleared the cartoon." The former editor is survived by his wife and daughter. In his memoir 'Murasoli ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday released as Rs 100 coin to commemorate the birth centenary of late DMK president M Karunanidhi, and was effusive in his praise of the former Tamil Nadu ...

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 ...

It is significant to recall the legacy of Karunanidhi as the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and its leadership is faced with the twin challenges of transition from within and the political ...

Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the icon of the Dravidian movement was one of the most respected scriptwriters in the Tamil film industry. This was mainly due ...

It has been rightly said of Muthuvel Karunanidhi that he has been a much understood and much misunderstood politician. That the five-time chief minister of Tamil Nadu who presided over a prominent ...

IMAGE: President Ram Nath Kovind unveils a portrait of the late Tamil Nadu chief minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi in the state assembly in Chennai, August 2, 2021. Photograph: Rashtrapati Bhavan "In ...

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 ...

The cartoon published in Tamil newspaper Dinamalar had depicted then DMK Chief M Karunanidhi as a cap seller, and fellow DMK MLAs as monkeys, taken from the children’s story ‘The Cap-Seller and The ...