The Kallakudi Battle.: The Three-Pronged Struggle

“You go to Sparta and fight, you people, we will finish the job!” A Spartan hero had said this as he died on the battlefield, and we went to this battlefield, thinking along the heroic lines of the stone cut at the place where he died. History says that it was written on the ‘Nadukal’ that the hero had finished his task.Says the architect of modern Tamilnadu Kalaingar M. Karunanidhi about the struggle that defined his political life.The book is a translated account of his protest at Kallakudi railway station. Though a well known leader at that time, the protest made him a first line leader for Peraringar Anna.Read about the protest and the subsequent jail term in Kalingar's own words. In the last chapter, he talks aboud the prison reforms he took up based on his jail experience in this protest. That is the mark of a great leader.Read more