Kanimozhi's trauma splits DMK, wrecks UPA stability

She sits quietly in a corner in the Patiala House courtroom in Delhi, with her 11-year-old son Adhithyan on her lap. Sometimes she sits holding hands with her mother, Rajathi Ammal. Very often she is seen reading a well-thumbed Gabriel Garca Marquez. She has apologised to only one person since her arrest on May 20: her son. In court, while other 2G accused send text messages to their lawyers, talk, ask questions, she sits aloof, as if she is elsewhere. If Kanimozhi is fighting anything, it is her emotions. Others are at war on the many fronts that have opened up in her life: legal, political, personal.