As speculation continues about what the size and magnitude of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral will be next Monday, we find in the archives of history that the largest and largest funeral the world has known so far, is the one in which the Guinness Book of Records states that 15 million people walked in a funeral. Who was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in India, CN Annadurai known as Anna for short.
Anna died on February 3, 1969, as a 59-year-old victim of esophageal bud cancer “for being addicted to chewing tobacco in his mouth,” according to his biography. They took him the next day to a famous beach called “Marina Beach” in Chennai, the state capital, which is currently “Madras” , according to what Al-Arabiya.net received from excerpts from the funeral, and there they buried him at a site near the beach, which became known as Anna Memorial as a museum and tourist attraction.
As for the funeral, there are very few photos and videos of it, and it is hardly easy to find one that shows its enormity. However, the video presented above may give an idea of the funeral, which was attended by millions of people who came from all over the state, even from neighboring states, to the extent that a major photo of it was taken from a high building, what appeared in it as a “tsunami” flowing from people.
Journalist, writer, speaker and orator
They write in India that the reason for the popularity of CNN Anadoray, a journalist, poet and teacher of English before he became a politician, is due to his brilliance as a writer, speaker and orator who “used to ignite emotions and inspire people” to the point that he “established a separate linguistic identity of Tamil by rejecting Hindi as a language patriotism” so he was adored by them.
And his struggle for 3 years with the most insidious disease, and the Tamils’ follow-up to his cancer, which he defeated 3 years after taking the first position in the state, increased the sympathy of its 45 million residents at that time with him, so a third of them flocked to participate in his funeral and funeral to where they buried him in a final resting place. In a short time to what looks like a shrine.