Frequency Now Online only Company Puzha.com Language Malayalam Based in Aluva | Year founded 2000 Country India Date founded 2000 | |
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Editor K. L. Mohana Varma Chandrashekaran Kartha Categories Art, Culture, Interview, Literature | ||
Puzha.com is the first Malayalam online magazine, founded in 2000, by Thomas Theakanath, Jeo Kurian, Harish Pillai, Shaji Thomas and KS James, that features original short-fiction, poetry, reviews, interviews and columns and it has since become the leading outlet for emerging writers in Malayalam language. Puzha.com is also credited with making little magazines across Kerala available to a wider audience and archiving of local (traditional and to some extent tribal) knowledge base and folklore of Kerala. In 2007, Puzha.com received the prestigious Manthan Award for its dedication to the advancement of Malayalam literature, development of language tools and archiving and preservation of local knowledge base and folklore of Kerala.
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Overview
Since its inception, Puzha.com provided a publishing platform for emerging Malayalam writers. The original works of short-fiction,novels, poetry, reviews and other articles were sourced and edited at the Aluva office and published on a daily basis. However, a lot of leading Malayalam writers also regularly contribute the Magazine.
Notable contributors
Little magazines
Puzha currently hosts the following little magazines. Each of these magazines are published and circulated in a local region and Puzha.com ensures its reach to a wider audience. Puzha.com does not edit or sensor the contents of the mini magazines and all word processing, proof reading and hosting expenses are done free. Also, the original publisher of the magazine holds all the rights on the electronic/print content.
Gulf Malayalam
A Magazine published from Jizan, Saudi Arabia.
Sayahna Kairali literary magazine
Published from Kaloor, Kochi
Awards and citations
Puzha.com was awarded the prestigious Manthan South Asia prize. Citation from the award committee:
"Puzha.com is more than a home away from home for the Malayalees living outside Kerala. The initiative not only entertains, but is aware of its responsibility of preserving all that is gold for the future generations to carry forward the human zeal for excellence.
Its Classics channel publishes ancient Malayalam classics and works of prominent writers of yore. Kerala has a thriving culture of little magazines. puzha.com helps publishers of those little magazines to go online by letting them having a dedicated channel for their magazine. The Kids channel is a great source of kids stories and poems for Malayalees around the world who want to read stories to their children in Malayalam.
Innovation pays. Puzha developed its own language tools to facilitate the web site production and some of those tools like Chowara text editor and a Malayalam font are freely downloadable, which are popular with Malayalees. The Malayalam font Chowara is the first Malayalam font that is compatible with typewriter keyboard and that made it very easy to be used in large scale Malayalam text processing."