M. Shanmugavel, (4 July 1927 - 11 December 2007) popularly known as MS, was a

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journalist and the editor of Makkal Kural, Nixs News Tamil in

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, and ''Trinity Mirror''.

Biography

Shanmugavel started his journalistic career in 1946 at the ''

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'' in

. In the mid-1950s, he formed a cooperative venture with other journalists, '' Navamani'', a Tamil-language

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. The paper twice won the Central government's best display award. After a few years, he quit the ''Navamani'' and founded ''

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''. In 1973, Shanmugaval started his own venture,

Makkal Kural ''Makkal Kural'' is a Tamil daily newspaper, started in 1973 by M Shanmugavel. This evening paper was famous for its explosive stand against Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) rule in Tamil Nadu at that time. The firebrand editorials of Shanmugav ...

, as a limited company. He was invited by Prime Ministers

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and Narashima Rao to accompany them on their foreign tours on several occasions, and also attended the UN conference and the Davos economic summit. Shanmugavel died on 11 December 2007.

Awards

Shungavel won the Central government's award for best layout and news presentations five times, twice for Tamil and three times for the English paper. He was a member of Temples committee under HR and CE department headed by then Chief Minister of

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and was also a member of the high-level committee for prohibition enforcement constituted by the Government of Tamil Nadu.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20061024141100/http://www.makkalkuralonline.com/aboutus.asp {{DEFAULTSORT:Shanmugavel, M 1927 births Indian newspaper journalists 2007 deaths Indian editors People from Coimbatore Journalists from Tamil Nadu 20th-century Indian journalists