Bharathi Puthakalayam
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| owner = Toiling Masses Welfare Trust
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Bharathi Puthakalayam({{langx|ta|பாரதி புத்தகாலயம்}}) is a book publishing house in Chennai, Tamil Nadu . It is the publication wing of non profitable organization ‘Toiling Masses Welfare Trust’.{{cite web | url=http://ngo.india.gov.in/view_ngo_details.php?ngo_id=thamizhbooks&ngo_black=0&t_state=TN&t_dist_new3=0§or_key=0&ngo_name=&uniqueid=0043935 | title=NGO Details Bharathi Puthakalayam | publisher=Planning Commission of India | accessdate=16 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216092400/http://ngo.india.gov.in/view_ngo_details.php?ngo_id=thamizhbooks&ngo_black=0&t_state=TN&t_dist_new3=0§or_key=0&ngo_name=&uniqueid=0043935 | archive-date=16 December 2014 | url-status=dead }} Started in 2002, it has more than 1000 titles spread across the whole range of Popular Science, Literature, Literary Theory, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Fine arts . It has around 30 branches all over Tamil Nadu.{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/political-parties-and-the-publishing-line/article175329.ece | title=Political parties and the publishing line | date=3 September 2009 | accessdate=16 December 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://www.noolulagam.com/books/2/?pubid=211 | title=noolulagam | accessdate=16 December 2014}} It publishes children's literature through its imprint ‘Books for Children’.{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/tales-for-changing-times/article5586551.ece | title=Tales for changing times | date=17 January 2014 | newspaper=The Hindu | accessdate=23 November 2018}} Books published by Bharathi have won awards including the Sahitya Academy award for Children's books (Bala Sahidya Purashkar) for the year 2013, for its Fiction Vingnana Vikramathithyan by Ayisha.Era Natarasan.{{cite web | url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/balsahityapuraskar2014.pdf | title=List of Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2014 | accessdate=16 December 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306025902/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/balsahityapuraskar2014.pdf | archive-date=6 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}
== References ==
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Category:Publishing companies of India
Category:Tamil-language mass media
Category:Companies based in Chennai
Category:2002 establishments in Tamil Nadu