MGR Quotes

“Women were sensitive to the basic issues MGR raised—the availability of food and water, as they are homemakers; and temperance, as excessive male drinking bled their family budgets and often led to violence against them.’ Rural women desired protection against a culture that was associated with alcohol, violence and the perception of women as whores. MGR gave them status and a sense of dignity by calling them ‘thaikulam’—community of mothers.”
― Shrikanth Veeravalli, MGR: A Biography