Summary:
Mr.
Karunanidhi made it a point to visit the Murasoli office in Kodambakkam even when he was Chief Minister and go through the news items. When Murasoli was published as a pamphlet, Mr.
Karunanidhi assumed the pen name Cheran, and his close friend Thennan was secretary of the Dravidar Kazhagam. Today, besides Viduthalai, the Dravidar Kazhagam daily, only Murasoli survives. “As I had no money, I pledged my gold chain for ?50 to give conveyance charges to the speakers,” Mr.
Karunanidhi recalled in his autobiography, Nenjukku Neethi. After settling in Chennai, Mr.
Karunanidhi re-launched it as a weekly; it became a daily on September 17, 1960..