Saluting Annadurai: Tamil Nadu's first Chief Minister

Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, lovingly called 'Anna' grew up to be the Chief Minister of his state and the mentor of two other Chief Ministers - Karunanidhi and MG Ramachandran.

Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, lovingly called 'Anna' (elder brother), was born in a small brick house on September 15, 1909 in a Hindu lower-middle-class family at Kancheepuram, the city famed for its of temples near Chennai. There was little in his bi