When the CBI raided Jegath Gasper Raj, a priest who dons several caps and is a close aide of DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi, not many in Tamil Nadu were surprised. For, such is the reputation of the first time Rajya Sabha MP and her mother Rajathi alias Dharmambal.
Kanimozhi's rise to prominence and her fall from grace, within a short span of time, has been rather dramatic and it makes for interesting reading.
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Her octogenarian daddy had no other option left but to anoint her as the 'literary' heir with one of his sons, MK Stalin looking after the Government and another, MK Alagiri, taking care of the southern districts of the state. Geographically, nothing was left of his political estate to be offered to her.
But, the unmasking of the literary faade did not take too long, thanks to the 2G Spectrum scam. Well, Karunanidhi had camouflaged his propensity for rhetorical writing as literature and was skillful enough to employ it as a tool to promote himself.
However, the waning intellectual romance with the Dravidian movement demystified many a thing of which one was the literary pretensions of the wily film script-writer and author of narratives that some say border on pornography.
The two tiny poetry collections, published by a literary
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