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<div>{{short description|Tamil magazine published from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India}}<br />
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{{Infobox Magazine<br />
| title = Kalki<br />
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| image_size = 150px<br />
| image_caption = Cover of 28 March 1948 issue of ''Kalki''<br />
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| frequency = Weekly<br />
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| company = Bharathan Publications<br />
| founded = 1941<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]<br />
| website = {{url|kalkionline.com}}<br />
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'''''Kalki''''' is a [[Tamil language|Tamil]]-language [[Weekly (news magazine)|weekly magazine]] published from [[Chennai]], [[India]].<ref>{{cite news|title=But history will remain...|url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/06/11/stories/2003061100040100.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030918102658/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/06/11/stories/2003061100040100.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 September 2003|access-date=19 December 2018|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=11 June 2003}}</ref> The magazine was established by [[Kalki Krishnamurthy]], a popular [[Tamil language|Tamil]] novelist and [[Indian freedom fighter]], in 1941.<ref name="resh">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1895|access-date=8 January 2016|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|page=1895}}</ref> [[Kalki Sadasivam | T Sadasivam]] was the magazine's co-founder. The [[magazine]] is known for its publication of historic novels such as ''[[Ponniyin Selvan]]'' and ''[[Sivagamiyin Sabadham]]''.<ref name=nar>{{cite book|author=Pavithra Narayanan|title=What are you Reading?: The World Market and Indian Literary Production|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_wjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT153|access-date=8 January 2016|date=21 March 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-80926-5|page=153}}</ref> Singer [[Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer]], guru of M S Subbulakshmi, and music critic S V Seshadri were also involved with the magazine in its coverage of music. <ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/critics-who-made-reviews-as-popular-as-performances/articleshow/79731047.cms</ref> <br />
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Kalki Krishnamurthy also edited the magazine,<ref name=resh/> which is published on a weekly basis.<ref name=nar/> During his term the magazine was much more respected due to its quality.<ref name=resh/> [[Mullum Malarum]] (authored by Umachandran), which won this magazine's first prize in the silver jubilee novel competition was first published in this magazine as a serial, and later made into a hit [[Tamil movie]] of the same name starring [[Rajinikanth|Rajnikanth]].<br />
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