He is of course best known as a writer for the stage and film. Further they helped to constitute a veritable Dravidian brotherhood, ostensibly irrespective of caste and creed addressed every morning by their “elder brother” and leader, the party faithful were assured of their place in the party and in the larger world of politics. They were exercises in political communication: sometimes dense with information and argument, at other times, rhetorical in their affirmation of political and cultural truisms. His letters to his brothers-in-arms are legion. Karunanidhi wrote almost daily for the DMK’s newspaper, Murasoli. Fittingly, his grandson Aditya added a pen to his coffin. Karunanidhi took himself seriously as a writer and remained one till nearly the very end of his life. Two phrases figured in almost all the tributes paid to M Karunanidhi in the days following his death: 'social justice', and 'Tamil literary enthusiast'.
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