-there were poets who compared sundarar getting grain in thiruvarur and cms rice for 2 rs starting at thiruvaaroor.
avvai nadarajan, a poetess called ilambirai manimaran who was simply superb, paa vijay, palani barathi both young cine poets, all spoke.
avm saravanan who spoke after all this wondered whether to speak after so many poets and thus make a fool of himself.
but political differences apart karunanidhis achievements from such humble beginnings are noteworthy.
and guess who has writen the fore word of the book
cho ramasamy every one in chennai knows of the running feud between cm and cho. cho's building in cp ramasamy road has been givena demolition notice. a sheer case of political vendetta. but still cho had such words of praise for karunanidhi venketesh