Puzha.com is the first Malayalam online magazine, founded in 2000, 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.

The Magazine

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

Aluva

Aluva , is a suburb of the city of Kochi, situated north of the city center and a municipality in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. Aluva is also a major industrial center of the state....

 office and published on a daily basis. However, a lot of leading Malayalam writers also regularly contribute the Magazine.

Notable Contributors

• MT Vasudevan Nair
• Sethu
  Sethu
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• Chemmanam Chacko
• Kureepuzha Sreekumar
  Kureepuzha Sreekumar
  Kureepuzha Sreekumar is a noted Malayalam poet of the post modern era. His books of poetry include Habibinte Dinakkurippukal, his first, published in 1984, Sreekumarinte Dukkangal, Rahulan Urangunnilla, Amma Malayalam and Suicide Point.He won the Best Poet Award in 1975 from Kerala University, the...
  
  
• Iqlas Ottamalikayil
• K.L Mohanavarma
• P.K Parakkadav
• UK Kumaran
• Nirmala
• Sippi Pallippuram
• D Vinayachandran
• M. N. Vijayan
  M. N. Vijayan
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• Anand
  Anand
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• A. Ayyappan
  A. Ayyappan
  A. Ayyappan was a Malayalam poet in the modernist period. Born in a wealthy goldsmith's family, in Nemom, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, he became a non-conformist member of reading Malayali families. He had a very tragic childhood. His father, Arumukham, died when he was only one year old, perhaps...
  
  
• Akbar Kakkattil
  Akbar Kakkattil
  Akbar Kakkattil is a Short-story writer and Novelist from Kerala state, South India. He is noted for his story narration with humor element.-Life:...
  
  
• Madhusoodhanan Nair
  Madhusoodhanan Nair
  V. Madhusoodhanan Nair is a well known Malayalam poet, scholar, and teacher, well accepted nationally and by Keralites everywhere in the world, who popularized poetry and endeared it even to the illiterates and children....
  
  

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, Soudi Arabia.

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."

External links

• The Novel Still Rules-MT Vasudevan Nair in The Hindu, December 2002
• Quiet Flows the Puzha-Vipin V Nair in The Hindu, April 2005
• Launch of Puzha Print Magazine- Asianet News in Google Videos, Sep 2005
• Spreading the Magic of Word Online-Anand Haridas in The Hindu, June 2006
• The Website is a window to Literature - Silpa Nair Anand in The Hindu, May 2010
• Short Story Collection released- Staff Reporter in The Hindu, December 2010
• Award for Short Stories in The Hindu, Jan 2009