Puzha.com
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Puzha.com is a publishing company in Kerala, India that focuses on Malayalam literature publishing. The official portal, Puzha.com, was launched in 2000 followed by the DCBookstore.comin 2001. Puzha.com was the first interactive portal from India where the visitors could publish their works in English and Malayalam. However, the interactive features of Puzha.com did not attract lot of interest partly because of the low penetration of the computers that time and also the better publishing platforms like blogger.com that caught the attention of a wider audience.
Puzha Magazine was the first Malayalam literary magazine in the internet and many well known authors published their works in the magazine . However, majority of the articles are sourced from new and young writers living in various parts of Kerala. One of the objectives behind puzha.com is to promote literature and provide a publishing platform for young and budding Malayalam writers all over the world. The renowned writer K L Mohanavarma is the chief editor of Puzha.com.
Puzha.com launched a bookstore, DCBookstore.com, in partnership with DC Books in 2001 and made available more than 6000 Malayalam titles online. This was the first Malayalam online bookstore and the largest local language bookstore from the country. The bookstore claims to have shipped to more than 50 countries around the world already.
Puzha.com is also the biggest Malayalam literary collection available in the internet with more than 10,000 pages of literary works available for the readers.
[edit] Puzha.com Short Story Competition
Since its inception, Puzha.com conducts a Malayalam short-story competition every year with an objective of recognizing the young talent in short-fiction writing. Select online works are published as collections and distributed through the online bookstore and local retail outlets of DC Books.
[edit] Puzha.com channels
- Puzha Magazine: Web based literary magazine with edited articles.
- Puzha Kids(കുട്ടികളുടെ പുഴ): A channel for Kids edited by Sippi Pallippuram.
- Little Magazines: Little magazines sourced from various places and re-published in Puzha.com.
- Puzha Classics Classics in Malayalam edited by Prof. Antony Mammottil.
- Puzha Folklore (നാട്ടറിവ്): A collection of articles of Folklore, specific to Kerala, in association with Centre for Flolklore Studies, Kerala.
- Astrology: Weekly updated astrology.
- Malayalam Bookstore : Online bookstore for Malayalam Books. Facility to read and write reviews, read pages and best sellers by authors and categories.
- Reviews on Puzha Articles: Reviews on Articles published in Puzha.com.
- Thorappan (തൊരപ്പന്): A Malayalam content aggregator that 'diggs' Malayalam content from all over the internet through user submissions. The readers could rate the content by voting.
- News Aggregator: Aggregates News, Blogs and Readerlists from various news channels and blogs. Users could watch all news at one place.
