Makkal Kural

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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 Shanmugavel and TRR were historic at that time. On seeing the popularity of this newspaper M. G. Ramachandran (who had launched his own political party AIADMK to cross swords with DMK) patronised Makkal Kural and that led to the popularity of this newspaper in every village in Tamilnadu.

Makkal Kural was the first to install high speed web offset machines. Later it was the first in South India to install computerised DTP in the late 1980s.

In 1995 this group also started an English evening paper, the Trinity Mirror.