Author: R Chitra
It is difficult to explain who a Madhwa – a follower of saint Madhwacharya – is as we become an inextricable part of the society we live in.
Little did she know that when she gave up the sport she dearly loved – cricket – giving up her dream to represent her home country that her prayers would be answered a few years later when Sugetha K Chandhrasekar took the field to represent the Red, Blue and White at a World Cup Qualifiers in Scotland.
It was at 1 am on Wednesday that we decided to go to the CIT Nagar residence of DMK patriarch Karunanidhi’s daughter and MP Kanimozhi to pay our last respects to the leader. My husband R Rangaraj, veteran journalist, called up Kanimozhi and she advised us to come to CIT Nagar.
Chennai: The DMK today said 21 of its party workers have died unable to bear the “shock” of the illness and hospitalisation of party chief M Karunanidhi. The party also appealed to cadres not to take any extreme step in view of the 94-year-old former chief minister’s health. “I am deeply depressed to learn that 21 party workers have died unable to bear the shock of party president Kalaignar’s illness (and hospitalisation),” DMK working president M K Stalin said today. As Karunanidhi continues to be under intensive care for the fifth consecutive day today at Kauvery Hospital in Alwarpet, the…