Chennai: Kalaignar Karunanidhi  praised Vairamuthu, the National award winner who is also a renowned lyricist when he attended a book launch event yesterday.

We all were aware about Vairamuthu’s talent. The National award winner is a renowned lyricist and apart from being a lyric writer he also writes short stories. He has a habit of writing short stories for weekly magazines. We earlier reported that he is planning to compile all the short stories into one book.

The book launch event took place day before yesterday. We already reported that Vairamuthu met Kalaignar Karunanidhi in person and has invited him to be the chief guest. Kalaignar who is a very close friend of Vairamuthu has accepted his invitation and attended the book launch event.

Speaking at the launch, Karunanidhi said, “Short stories have evolved right from the time humans landed on earth. This acts as a bridge between the writer and the reader. How we feel and how we craft it to the scene is the real short story. 15 years back, when I wrote a book named ‘Vairamuthu Kavithaigal’, I have praised him a lot.

Vairamuthu is actually writing Dravida Kazhagam in form of poetry. I am happy for that. He is the only poet to do so. I myself have written short stories during 1940’s.From then I have been a competitor to my brother Vairamuthu. I hope Vairamuthu also makes a book on his poems and Haiku.”