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Kanimozhi
Member of Parliament
ConstituencyRajya Sabha
Personal details
Born1968
Chennai, India
Political partyDMK
SpouseG. Aravindan
Children1
Residence(s)Chennai, India

Kanimozhi was born in 1968 in Chennai. She is a politician. Kanimozhi is the daughter of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi and Rajathi Ammal. She prefers to be called Kanimozhi.[2]

Personal life

Kanimozhi was a student of Presentation Convent, Church Park in Chennai and later did her Masters in Economics in Ethiraj College for Women from Madras University.She married Athiban Bose a Sivakasi based Businessman in 1989.After divorce she married G. Aravindan a Singapore based Tamil literary figure,through mutual love of Tamil literature on August 21, 1997.[3][4] She has deep love for the Tamil language in particular Sangam Literature. She started a portal supporting Free speech along with Karthik Chidambaram.

Career

Kanimozhi was a sub editor for The Hindu, and editor in charge of Kungumam, a Tamil weekly magazine. She was also Columnist and conducted programmes in Sun TV and Vijay TV. She has also a features editor for a Singapore based Tamil newspaper called Dhina Murasu. She has also written Tamil poetry and translated Tamil poetry into English of other poets. She became a Rajya Sabha member in 2007.[5][6] She is strong supporter of Pan Tamil issues in particular Sri Lankan Tamils.[7] She has organised Tamil folk art festivals called Chennai Sangamam.

She recently created a stir in the southern state of Tamil nadu, for openly criticizing the blockbuster movie "Sivaji, The Boss", claiming it portrayed tamilians and Tamil culture in a very degrading manner. She appears in the 2008 film, Vaazhthukal starring Madhavan. Following threats to quit her post as a MP in protest against killing of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka,[8] Kanimozhi submitted her post-dated resignation to her father and party chief Karunanidhi on October 14[9]

Literary works

Tamil poems

  • Karuvarai Vasanai
  • Agathinai, Paarvaigal
  • Karukum Marudani

Music album

Silappadikaram based on the Tamil epic with Bombay Jayasree.[10]

References

  1. ^ Times of India, 8 September 2008.
  2. ^ Our name is our first identity. Why should we change it?
  3. ^ A Wedding In The Family
  4. ^ Kanimozhi to wed Singapore-born Indian
  5. ^ Star on ascent
  6. ^ Kanimozhi Biography
  7. ^ Kanimozhi the rising daughter in Tamil Nadu?
  8. ^ PM speaks up for Lanka Tamils, Kanimozhi resigns
  9. ^ http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1199083
  10. ^ Classic in a new idiom

See also

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