Kannagi was a Tamil language

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 newspaper published in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

, southern India

India

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. The first copy was published on the initiative of former Indian National Army

Indian National Army

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 officer S. Sakti Mohan on May 29, 1952. It succeeded the publication Netaji

Netaji (forthnightly)

Netaji was a Tamil language fortnightly published by the All India Forward Bloc in Tamil Nadu. The first copy was released on January 23, 1948, the birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The publication of Netaji was discontinued in less than a year....

, which had started in 1948. Soon it became the regional organ of the All India Forward Bloc

All India Forward Bloc

The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India...

in Tamil Nadu.

Kannagi identified itself as a 'Revolutionary Nationalist Forthnightly', and its motto was 'All Power to the people'. By 1957 Kannagi had a circulation of around 10 000.

In 1977 the publication of Kannagi was discontinued.