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Kollipavai First issue

Kollipavai was a Tamil literary magazine which was published from Nagercoil. It is primarily known for the its articles authored by Sundara Ramaswamy, Venkat Swaminathan and Rajamarthandan.

History

Kollipavai magazine was published by Rajamarthanadan, with the help of M. Vethasagayakumar, while he was a research student in literature under Professor Jesudasan in Trivandrum. The first issue was published in October, 1976. Rajamarthandan has mentioned that the magazine name was chosen by Pramil, who was with him at that time. Kollipavai came out as a quarterly in big size and high number of pages. The first issue contained 52 pages. Only one issue was published in the year 1977. The magazine publication stopped after 12 issues came out in varying frequency over a period. The publication of the magazine was revived by Kattaikkadu Rajagopalan in July, 1985. He published 8 issues between July, 1985 and June, 1988 and then stopped. In total there were 20 issues of the magazine.

Rajamarthandan narrates the events that led to the starting of the Kollipavai magazine in one of his interviews thus[1]. During the period when Rajamarthandan was a research student for his doctorate at the university of Kerala, he along with A. Thirumalinthrasingh, A. Rajendran, Aa. Dasarathan started a bi-monthly literary magazine called "Kogayam". The publication of Kogayam stopped in February, 1976 after it's 4th issue. Meanwhile, in Nagercoil, Umapathi was busy in preparation for publication of the second issue of his magazine Therigal. Due to the pressures of the emergency period, he tried to publish the second issue with the name Kali, under the editorship of artist Sakthi Ganapathi from Suceendram. As this attempt also failed, he handed over the 40 pages of content which was already printed, including the title pages, (short story by Sundara Ramaswamy, a long poetry by Nakulan, an essay by Krishnan Nambi, a letter titled "Sakithya Akademi Patri" written at the request of Ananda Vikatan by subsequently returned) to Rajamarthandan and asked him to publish them as part of Kogayam. Since Rajamarthandan did not have any intention to restart Kogayam, he decided to publish Kali itself from Trivandrum. He wrote to Pramil with an intention to add more contents to the magazine. Pramil wrote an essay "Kalainganum Kotpaadum" and in addition, he renamed the magazine to Kollipavai, created a new magazine design and and sent it to Rajamarthandan. The first issue of Kollipavai gets published in October, 1976 after including Pramil's essay along with poems written by Umapathi.

The second issue of Kollipavai came out during the period January - March, 1977. The annual publication frequency of 4 issues was achieved only in 1978. From the third issue until the 12th issue, the publication was done from Kanyakumari district with gaps in the period of publications. Starting July, 1985, Kollipavai restarted its publication under the editorship of Rajagopalan who committed to bring out the magazine for 8 issue. The publication stopped after completing the promised 8 issues.

Content

Kollipavai magazine had contents authored by Pramil, Sundara Ramaswamy, Nakulan, Vannanilavan, N. Muthusamy, S. Ramanujam, K. Rajanarayanan, Devathachan, Kalapriya and Sukumaran. In 1985, Sundara Ramaswamy penned 13 poems in a single issue under the pseudonym of Pasuvayya. The essays written by Rajamarthandan with detailed analysis of the young poets are critically significant. The first text written by Jeyamohan after entering literature, a poem titled Kaithi was published in the Kollipavai, 1986 issue. Other noteworthy articles include Udal, a drama written by Sundara Ramaswamy, his introductions to writers who were Nobel laureates, essay by Venkat Swaminathan - "Irandu Thalaimuraigalukku Idaiye" and the related discussions. The short stories of Puthumaipithan - "Saamavin Thavaru", "Nambikkai", "Saalaram" and "Kannan Kuzhal" were republished in Kollipavai being taken from the magazine issues of M. Vethasagayakumar. These short stories were included in the collected works of Puthumaipithan only after their re-publication in Kollipavai.

Contribution to Literature

Kollipavai found circulation only within a small group. It provided a platform for Sundara Ramaswamy's writings before he started Kalachuvadu magazine. Kollipavai is remembered mainly for publishing the discussions that were happening in the literary world during the eighties. In the essay "Irandu Thalaimuraigalukku Idaiye" Venkat Swaminathan reproduces Sundara Ramaswamy's essay written as a letter where Sundara Ramaswamy refutes the view that temple cultures essentially protect the fine arts in our society and following it, gives his reply to the refute. Following this, Pramil's essay "Vegusana Rasanayum Madha Marbum" was published. Vethasagayakumar's essay on the structure of short stories and S. Ramanujam's essay on the structure of drama texts are some of the contents that evoked wide discussions.

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