பதயகடஙக சறறதழல நடடபபறக கறகள / Folklore Elements in the Magazine Puthiya Kodangi

Folk literature has been called in many names, such as non-written literature, oral literature and field literature. This type of communication helps people to express their feelings easily to the succeeding generations. In folk literature, the words are in the dialect forms with the impact of the mother tongue. This literatures help a lot to know the history and indigenous culture. Folklore vocabulary is a collection of terms related to folklore traditions. It includes terms related to the field of collecting, researching, and documenting the customs, culture, beliefs, stories, proverbs, oral history, riddles, songs, and arts of indigenous peoples. Tamil people have such an ancient folk tradition. Folklore is part of the oral tradition of a particular ethnic group or the people of a particular region. This includes folk songs, stories, proverbs, riddles, rituals, arts, rituals, beliefs, etc. Folk literature is seen as literature for the native people and the oppressed. It is a literary genre that expresses the lives, problems, struggles, feelings and experiences of the oppressed and neglected people in society. In Tamil society, one can see this sort of inequality. Hence, this will focus on the rights of Dalits, Adivasis, women, workers, wage farmers, migrants, etc. The article focuses on feminism, new poetry, questions and answers, editorials, paintings, articles, interviews, and history published in the magazine “Puthiya Kodangi” and the folk elements found in them. So, the selected articles featured in the “Puthiya Kodangi” magazine have been taken for analysis. This study also examines the ideas of Ambedkar for the oppressed Dalit people in the form of folk literature in the magazine “Puthiya Kodangi”.