The Maker of Dr.M.Karunanidhi as Interpreter of History

Abstract

The Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter once and he himself was It is not enough if you read history you must also Jawaharlal Nehru history' both a writer and a maker of history. Dr.Kalaignar Karunanidhi is both an interpreter and a maker of history. Those who deny history will condemn repeating it said a great historian. We should neither reject history nor repeat it rediscover it and in great minds like Dr. Kalaignar, not only the past illuminates the present, but the present alters the past in the light and for the sake of the present. While in his writings he interprets the past with a poetic vision of reality. The cycle is complete the artist converts the reality into a dream the statesman converts the dream into reality. The Dravidian Movement was implied was implied by a passion to rediscover and recreate the glory of a great culture which, though it is the cornerstone of Indian culture did not get its due recognition in the hands of many historians. In the pre-modern and modernist phases, historians tended to conflate diversity into a kind of sterile homogeneity and interestingly what is happening in several parts of the world only now in the name of Postmodernism, happened in Tamilnadu even Seventy years ago.