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Manikkodi literary weekly launched

· Chennai

Launched in Madras, the Tamil literary weekly Manikkodi gave modern Tamil short fiction a platform.

Stalin Srinivasan, V. Ramaswami Iyengar and T. S. Chockalingam started Manikkodi in Madras in 1933, and it continued to appear until 1939. Pudhumaipithan and C. S. Chellappa were among the writers linked with it, and the weekly came to be strongly associated with the rise of the modern Tamil short story. In 1934 it carried Pudhumaipithan's first short story.

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