About this issue
Hello friends,It’s a new year! Aren’t you excited? I am. I am looking forward to whole new days filled with wonderful opportunities. That’s the funny thing about opportunities... they do not always come knocking. They are quite shy that way. They lurk in uncomfortable corners, hide behind embarrassing moments or duck under mistakes. Sometimes, very rarely, especially when we have been too daft to spot one prancing in plain sight, they announce themselves with a bang. Opportunities exist where you seek them. You may have an opportunity to make friends with someone new, shy and uncertain but who turns out to be a warm, valuable friend. Or there may be that class test that has you on tenterhooks with the fear of failure looming large. But then, because you have taken a chance and helped a friend study, you find you actually remember better than you could have on your own! And then there are all those instances where you get things wrong (which unless you are perfect, you are bound to do!) which means you have all those chances to get them right (or as right as you can).
About TINKLE
Tinkle started as a fortnightly children’s comics magazine, in 1980. Under the guidance of editor-founder, Anant Pai, the brand evolved the tagline ‘Where learning meets fun’. It was one of the first few children’s comics magazines with Indian content at that time. Till then children were reading syndicated foreign comics, – Archies, Phantom, Mandrake – translated into Indian languages. In Tinkle, children could read folktales from all over the world as well as stories revolving around the Tinkletoons. Many of these characters have evolved into icons such as Suppandi, Shikari Shambu, Tantri the Mantri, Kalia the Crow, etc. Over the years, newer characters have stepped into the Tinkle pages. These include the Defective Detectives, Butterfingers, Sea Diaries, etc. Apart from comics, the magazine also engages readers with several educative non-fiction pages including puzzles, do-it-yourself crafts, solve-it-yourself mysteries, knowledge features on a wide range of subjects and contests. Though intended as a magazine for children between the ages of 8 and 14, Tinkle’s reach goes far beyond. Families eagerly look forward to the magazine, every month, across the length and breadth of the country. It is probably not just the entertainment but the unexpected insights that the magazine gives their children that families value. Owing to Uncle Pai’s efforts, Tinkle is also welcomed by educators and school principals and thus holds a position as a recommended magazine for wholesome edutainment.