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Thiru. Vi. Ka. launches Navasakthi

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Thiru. Vi. Ka. launches Navasakthi
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Tamil scholar and labour leader Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram started the Tamil weekly Navasakthi.

Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram, known as Thiru. Vi. Ka., was a Tamil scholar who had helped organise some of the first trade unions in South India with B. P. Wadia. In 1920 he started the Tamil weekly Navasakthi. The magazine became the main outlet for his writing on nationalism, labour and Tamil for much of the rest of his life. His prose style in Navasakthi influenced modern Tamil journalism.

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