Leader
Jul 15 2008, Abirami

Who would even have dreamed that Kamakshi Kumaraswamy son of a simple coconut merchant at Virudhunagar near Madurai in Tamil Nadu will become one of the popular and most honest politician of India.
This little boy who was born on 15th July 1903 was a...

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