Akademi award winner blows lid off corruption: Previous Stalin govt in dock over procuring trash, junk for iconic Periyar library

By MC Rajan Chennai, Nov 6 (UNI) Celebrated award-winning author Perumal Murugan has blown the lid off corruption in the purchase of junk books by ghost writers and fake publications at exorbitant prices for the iconic state-of-the-art library, Periyar Arivulagam (Periyar Knowledge World) in Coimbatore, putting the opposition DMK leadership and the embattled former Minister Anbil Mahes Poyyamozhi in the dock. Following the revelations, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C.Joseph Vijay slammed the DMK, accusing it of using an institution named after the icon of social reforms to swindle public money. In a statement on Friday, he expressed anguish at the…