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Puthucode is a small village in Palakkad district

Palakkad district

Palakkad District is one of the 14 districts of the Indian state of Kerala. The city of Palakkad is the district headquarters. Palakkad is bordered on the northwest by the Malappuram District, on the southwest by the Thrissur District and on the east by Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. The...

 of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 state, south India

South India

South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...

. It is a panchayat under Alathur

Alathur

Alathur is a small town in the Palakkad district of Kerala, South India. It is the headquarters of the Alathur Taluk and is situated at the south west end of the district 24 km from the district headquarters at Palakkad. Alathur Taluk is predominantly rural and has an agricultural economy...

 Taluk in Palakkad district. It is home to an old Bhagavathy Temple - around 400 years old called Shree Annapoorneswari Temple, which is located in the centre of four streets: South, East, North, and West. Each street is referred to as a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

. At the end of North Village, there is a Shiva

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

 temple and a water tank. Next to the Shiva temple, a mandapam

Mandapam

Mandapam is a panchayat town in Ramanathapuram district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.-Geography:Mandapam is located at . It has an average elevation of 9 metres .-Demographics:...

 called Shiva Mahal has been built. Shiva Mahal includes an elementary school, a high school, a Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan branch centre, and an Ayurvedic Hospital. Despite a historically large Brahmin population, Puthucode is also home to a newly built mosque at Karapethai.

The celebrations during the traditional Nercha(PUTHIRIPPADAM NERCHA AND THERUVU NERCHA ARE FAMOUS) season are popular, and Puthucode is also well known for its Navaratri celebrations . Puthucode Kovil Pulimkari or Pulungari, a variant of sambar, is typically made at temples during the Navaratri festival. It uses a combination of four vegetables: white pumpkin (elavan/safed bhopla), yellow pumpkin (maththan/laal bhopla), raw bananas (vazhakkya/kachcha kela), and elephant foot yam (chenai/suran).

A landmark at Puthucode is Sarvajan High School. It was built, around 100 years ago, in front of West Nada of Sri Annapoorneswari Temple. The main feature of this school is that two famous temples are located on either side (front and back sides) of the school. The school has a great playground for use by the students and people of Puthucode.

Among Puthucode's well known residents are the late Shri Puthucode Krishnamurthy, a Carnatic musician, and Justice P R Sundaram Iyer of South Village. Shri P C Sriram, a well-known cinematographer in Indian Cinema, is the grandson of Justice P R Sundaram Iyer. Justice Sundaram Iyer started Sanskrit College .

The Governor of Madras Major General Sir Thomas Monroe (British East India Company) Died in Puthucode.