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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicM Karunanidhi

Topic: M Karunanidhi

Tamil people do not bow in shame, nor lower their head in defeat: M Karunanidhi on Tamil pride

On 15 September 1986, the DMK stalwart delivered a stirring address in Chennai, weaving poetry with politics, defending Tamil cultural heritage while reflecting on electoral defeats with unwavering pride.

Court grants bail to YouTuber arrested for ‘derogatory remarks’ against Karunanidhi

Social influencer & NTK member ‘Sattai’ Durai Murugan was arrested for making ‘derogatory remarks’ against Karunanidhi while campaigning for NTK candidate for Vikravandi bypoll.

Same circle of leaders, different approach — how Stalin made father Karunanidhi’s DMK his own

MK Stalin inherited his father M Karunanidhi's political legacy, but adopted a different style of leadership and governance to face the changing scenario in Tamil Nadu and India.

74 years, 3 generations, 1 ideology: Inside DMK’s ‘first family’ at the heart of TN BJP’s ‘corruption exposé’

BJP’s purported exposé — ‘DMK Files’ — claims 13 members of DMK have assets totalling Rs 1.34 lakh crore. Five of these, it says, are members of ‘DMK first family’.

Stalin is no Karunanidhi, but this is how he’s rebranding his image in Tamil Nadu politics

Most events Stalin has participated in over the last few months have been choreographed down to the minutest detail.

Negotiator recalls how Kannada film star Rajkumar was freed from Veerappan’s custody

Eighteen years after 'Dr' Rajkumar was abducted by forest brigand Veerappan, nine suspects were set free Tuesday.

DMK family feud out in open after Karunanidhi’s death, Alagiri trains guns at Stalin

The development comes before DMK’s executive committee meeting where steps may be taken to elevate Stalin to lead the party.

Karunanidhi’s Marina beach burial despite AIADMK objection, and shelter-home horrors

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Technically, the national flag shouldn’t fly at half-mast everywhere for Karunanidhi

The Flag Code of India doesn’t officially allow for this honour to be given to a former state CM. But the code has long been flexible.

Politics over Karunanidhi’s burial & why Rahul Gandhi liked Gadkari’s query on job data

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.