Thozhar Thiyagu
Biography
Comrade Thiyagu (born 30 January 1950) is a social activist, politician, writer from Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He is also the General Secretary of Tamil National Liberation Movement and is well known for his proficiency in Marxist ideology.
Early life
The native of comrade Thiyagu is Nallampur, near Chandrasekarapuram. His father worked as a teacher at Thiruvarur. He was born and brought up in Thiruvarur. He grew up listening to the speeches of Periyar, Annadurai, Jeevanantham and Kamaraj at the general meetings held at Thiruvarur. He had a habit of reading all the DMK, Congress and Tamil National journals.
Personal life
Thozhar Thiyagu is married twice. He has a daughter through his first wife. Thozhar Thiyagu is now married to Tamil lyricist Thamarai.They have a son.
Introduction to Politics
In 1965 his family moved to Valangaiman. There, Comrade Thiyagu joined a typing school where he met Mr. Ameerjohn, who ran the typing school. Ameerjohn, who was against the caste system not only changed Comrade Thiyagu into an Atheist but also influenced his way of thinking. At that time, leaders like Kuthusi Gurusamy who had split up from Periyar's self-respect movement. When Comrade Thiyagu attended the first convention organised by them with Mr. Ameerjohn, they bought books written by Karl Marx and Lenin. It was at this time when, Comrade Thiyagu was first introduced to Marxism.
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