One of the most significant political personalities in the Medieval Indian history is Aditha Karikalan. Why was he so important that he is spoken about in inscriptions culminating into the core plot of a ‘five-volume’ novel made into a ‘two-part’ film, ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ while he was not even the emperor? Many a prince had died in wars and political slugfest throughout history and not much is spoken about them. Therefore, it was not merely because he belonged to the royal blue blood of the Chola dynasty....