Muthuvel Karunanidhi – former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu – passed away at the age of 94 due to age related illness.
About:
Muthuvel Karunanidhi (1924 – 2018) was an Indian writer and politician. He was popularly referred to as ‘Kalaignar’ or the artist.
Contribution to Tamil Cinema:
He began his career as a screenwriter in the Tamil film industry.
He alongside C. N. Annadurai used Tamil cinema extensively for propagating the ideologies of the Dravidian movement.
His movies contained themes such as criticism of Brahmanism, promoting self-respect marriages and abolition of untouchability & zamindari system.
Contribution to Tamil Literature:
He wrote a number of poems, stories, stage-plays, novels and biographies.
He also started ‘Murasoli’, a Tamil language newspaper, which is currently the mouthpiece newspaper of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
Political Career:
He was the president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) political party and served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu five times.
Being a long-standing leader of the Dravidian movement, he stood for regional aspirations along with national progress and ensured that Tamil Nadu’s voice was effectively heard.
During the Emergency, DMK led by him was the only ruling party that opposed the emergency for which his government was dismissed.
He also actively participated in the Anti-Hindi agitations of 1965.
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