M. Karunanidhi

DMK President MK Stalin and Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari during the ‘Commemorative meeting for M Karunanidhi‘ at Nandhanam YMCA grounds in Chenn...

Bihar Chief Ministers Nitish Kumar, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and National Congress’ Farooq Abdullah during the ‘Commemorative meeting for M Karunanidhi‘ at Nandhanam ...

MDMK Chief Vaiko pays homage to late DMK chief M Karunanidhi at his memorial on Marina Beach, in Chennai.

People hold pictures of the late DMK stalwart M Karunanithi as they take part in a silent rally to pay tribute to him, in Coimbatore.

Workers decorate the memorial of late DMK president M Karunanidhi before opening for the public to pay their last respects at Anna Memorial on Marina beach, in Chennai.

Students pay tribute to late DMK president M Karunanidhi at Everwin School, in Chennai.

A most fashionable quartet, with Sivaji Ganesan, MGR and Jayalalitha in 1972

A comforting hand from PM Narendra Modi, in November last year

Fasting in Chennai for a ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE in 2009

Looming large at his rally for the implementation of the Sethusamudram shipping canal project in Nagapattinam, 2013

Far from amused by his arrest in 2001

All smiles with Sonia Gandhi during a 2009 poll rally

Moving with the times, armed with a tablet in 2014

Rocking the sunglasses in ’69, during his first term as CM

A gallery of Dravidian luminaries—from left, C.N. Annadurai, Karunanidhi, MGR, Periyar

Karunanidhi with his wife, sons Stalin and Azhagiri and other family members

People gather to pay their last respects to DMK chief M Karunanidhi near Marina Beach, in Chennai.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu pays his last respects to DMK chief M Karunanidhi as his cortege passes through the streets of Chennai.

DMK leader Kanimozhi pays floral tribute to her father DMK chief M Karunanidhi's during his funeral ceremony at Anna Memorial, in Chennai.

DMK working president MK Stalin and son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi receives tricolour during his funeral ceremony at Anna Memorial, in Chennai.