An embodiment of justice and wrath caught up in controversy

Kannagi is a personality within the epic Silappadhikaram who stands for justice. When her husband Kovalan is unjustly accused of stealing the queen’s anklet and executed, she is each devastated and wrathful. Showing the Pandya king of Madurai the matching anklet of rubies she possesses, she calls for to know why her husband was executed with out an investigation or truthful trial. She then curses the town, and in an act of rage, burns all of it down.

In Madras, the statue of Kannagi was first put in on the Marina in 1968 underneath the then DMK authorities firstly of the Second World Tamil Conference, a present from college students and academics.

In December 2001, nevertheless, the statue ‘disappeared’, apparently after its pedestal was broken by a dashing lorry. It was later traced to a locked room within the PWD workplace. The then AIADMK Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam nearly dominated out its reinstallation on the Marina, resulting in a raging political controversy.

As the agitation threatened to snowball and the courtroom grew to become concerned, the statue was subsequently moved to the Government Museum, Egmore, the place it was ‘discovered mendacity flat on the dusty flooring’. It was solely in 2006, when the DMK returned to energy that the statue made a triumphant return to the Marina.