Rajathi karunanidhi!
Kanimozhi school in chennaiThe year was 1934, and 10-year-old M. Karunanidhi was listening to his father Muthuvelar playing the nadaswaram, filling the room with notes from the raga Sankarabharanam.
A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door.
When Muthuvelar opened the door, a man said, “Pannaiyar (landowner) wants you to come and see him.”
As Muthuvelar set out, Karunanidhi also followed. When his father approached the landlord who was sitting on a swing, Muthuvelar bent his torso and spoke in a deferential tone.
After a brief conversation, they returned home.
Kayalvizhi alagiri daughter
But it upset Karunanidhi that his father was forced to be so deferential. Muthuvelar was a farmer who read and wrote in Tamil and Sanskrit, and a poet who could recite the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
This incident, according to a new biography of the five-time chief minister, sparked an aversion in the boy towards the caste hierarchy.
“It left a deep mark on Karunanidhi and it lasted till his death in 2018 at 94. It shaped