Radical Reformer

[...]that there have been more Supreme Court judgments favouring the appointment of archakas from all castes, one non-Brahmin- amongst the more-than-200 persons trained in the rules of the agamas during Karunanidhi's tenure (2006-11)-has now been appointed as an archaka in a Madurai temple; a development Karunanidhi might not have been aware of due to his hospitalisation. On the Tamil Eelam question, he was the first to make it an issue that should concern politicians from other parts of the country, since he knew that Tamil Nadu was but a part of India, and any major decision on foreign affairs could be taken only after a broad consensus at the national level. [...]his attempt was thwarted by M G Ramachandran, who wanted to prove he was more Tamilian than Karunanidhi and selectively encouraged the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which had no political vision or understanding of the geopolitical interests of South Asian countries.