Dinamalar stalin biography

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He named his second son Alagiri, as a tribute to the local Dravidian leader and hero of the earlier anti- Hindi agitation, Pattukkottai Alagiri.
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M.K. Stalin is the son of powerful Tamil politician M. Karunanidhi, who is now Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He has held this position five times since 1969. Karunanidhi is the head of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a Dravidian political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. Karunanidhi has headed the DMK since the death of its founder C.N. Annadurai in 1969. Karunanidhi has the distinction of having won his seat in every election he has run in. This dates back to 1957.

M.K. Stalin seems to be the heir-apparent to Karunanidhi as leader of the DMK, and has recently been appointed as Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. M.K. Stalin has good political credentials in his own rights, including being imprisoned under MISA (Maintenance of Internal Security Act) and nearly beaten to death. The beatings were so severe that a fellow DMK party member and prisoner died trying to save him. His political career began when, as a 14-year old, he campaigned in the 1967 elections. In 1973 Stalin was elected to the General Committee of the DMK. Stalin was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (M

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Veteran editor, eminent epigraphist R Krishnamurthy passes away at 88

Chennai: R Krishnamurthy, a former editor of Tamil daily Dinamalar and a renowned epigraphist, died in the city on Thursday following a heart attack. He was 88.
Krishnamurthy was instrumental in making Dinamalar, which his father founded, one of the popular dailies in the state.
He was behind simplifying the Tamil script and introduced the Periyar script with fewer alphabets.Though there was opposition from scholars, other newspapers picked up the script after Dinamalar made it popular. The government introduced the script in textbooks in 1979. His interests in Tamil script reform led him to trace its origin which, in turn, kindled an interest in numismatics making him tour the world scouring museums and private collections for coins relating to ancient rulers of south India.
He studied inscriptions in Vatteluttu in different parts of the state, discovered a coin with the name Peruvaluthi, a Sangam-age Pandya king, engraved in Tamil-Brahmi script in Madurai that changed the perception about trade in the an

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Murasoli Selvam

Indian newspaper editor and journalist (1940–2024)

In this Indian name, the name Shanmugasundaram is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, "Pannirselvam" or "Selvam".

Shanmugasundaram Pannirselvam (24 April 1940 – 10 October 2024), popularly known as Murasoli Selvam, was a political journalist and film producer from Tamil Nadu, India. For over three decades, he served as the chief editor of Murasoli, the mouthpiece of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). Through his maternal side, he was related to the Karunanidhi family.^[1]^[2]

Early life

He was born on 24 April 1940 in Thiruvarur, a town in present-day Tamil Nadu.^[3] His mother was Shanmuga Sundarathammal, whose younger brother M. Karunanidhi,^[4] (the patriarch of the Karunanidhi family^[1]) would later serve five terms as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (between 1969 and 2011). Karunanidhi initially named the boy as Pannirselvam in memory of Justice Party leader A. T. Pannirselvam, who had died in a plan