Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Note that this post is copy-pasted from  https://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-tamil-nadu-political-leader-shri-mk.html on 30th Jan. 2018. Shri Stalin said, "Actually my father wanted to call me Ayyadurai. Because Periyar (social reformer and the leader of Dravidian movement) was called Ayya, and Durai was the name of C N Annadurai (former CM and founder of DMK). But on the day of my birth, Kalaignar (M Karunanidhi) was attending a condolence meeting for Russian Communist party leader Joseph Stalin. When a note was handed over to the stage informing him about the birth of a boy, he instantly announced that he is naming his child after the late Communist leader". Ref:  http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/give-tamil-names-to-your-children-dmk-chief-stalin/ . For those who do not know much about Shri Stalin (of Tamil Nadu), here's his wiki page:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Stalin . Shri M.K. Stalin's father, Shri M.Karunanidhi, is a lead...

This post is a very, very long post with lots of wiki extracts and a few comments from me. I have divided the post into an overview section followed by a Details section. The Details section repeats some of the Overview contents. Perhaps most readers interested in this post may want to read or browse through the Overview. They may then decide whether to skip the very long Details or read/browse through it. Overview Till some weeks back when I started reading up and viewing up on Chinese history in the past few centuries, I had not known how bad it had become in China in that period. I mean, I knew that China had gone through a bad period then but I did not know it was so bad and that it extended to around a century. That is, it was just not Japanese massacres of Chinese in Nanking and elsewhere. It was brutality for a century that Chinese suffered from foreign powers AS WELL AS from Chinese leaders/warlords themselves. China's Century of Humiliation, https://www.youtube.com/...