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'''''Keraliya Suguna Bodhini''''' (also known as ''Keraliya Sugunabodhini'') is considered the first women's magazine in [[Malayalam]].<ref name=tan>{{cite journal|author=Teena Antony|title=Women’s Education: A Reading of Early Malayalam Magazines|journal=Journal of Social Sciences|date=2013|volume=12|issue=3|url=http://journals.christuniversity.in/index.php/artha/article/view/725/538|accessdate=15 February 2017}}</ref> It was first published in 1886 in [[Trivandrum]].<ref name=tan/><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/when-women-make-news/article736864.ece|title=When women make news|work=The Hindu| accessdate=30 June 2016}}</ref> It was published by Kerala Varma Valiya Koyi Thampuran, N.C. Narayana Pillai and K. Chidambaram Vadhyar.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/what-end-kerala-matrilineal-society|title=What Led to the End of Kerala’s Matrilineal Society?|accessdate=30 June 2016}}</ref><br />
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The magazine came to a stop after six months. It was restarted in 1892.<ref name=":0" /> The early editions of the magazine had mostly literary articles. There were poems, reviews of literary works, short news items, biographies, short articles on Ayurveda, astrology, ''Sthreedharma,'' physiology, philosophy, cooking science, music, etc. The magazine may not have had actual women writers.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Priyadarshanan |first=G. |title=Masikapatanangal |publisher=Sahitya Pravarthaka Cooperative Ltd |year=1974 |location=Kottayam |pages=14 |language=Malayalam}}</ref><br />
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The annual price of the magazine was ₹2.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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The 1976 edition of ''Sugunabodhini'' take on this sequence of writings that energise the moral conscience, [[cookery]], biographies of ideal women, and other such enlightening topics promoting the domesticated, dedicated, motherly lady. It published nothing related to [[politics]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/a-malayalam-womens-magazine-the-christhava-mahilamani-printed-in-1920/article8370652.ece|title=A magazine much ahead of its time|accessdate=30 June 2016}}</ref><br />
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