About this issue
Dear Friends, Lately, I have been reading a book on thinkers from ancient civilizations. These thinkers lived over a thousand years ago and were Sumerian, Chinese, Egyptian, Indian, Greek, Roman, and Phoenician. They were mathematicians, scientists, poets and artists, often all at the same time. How can that be, you ask? Well, it was a world that was exploring these disciplines for the first time. They did not have textbooks, courses and degrees, like we do now. All that came later. They first began by exploring and observing things around them, experimenting with them and forming theories. Their studies ranged from the movement of the stars to inventing the numerals while simultaneously exploring the arts and literature. They didn’t stop there. Many of them wrote down this new knowledge in books that later scholars referred to and worked further upon. These SuperBrains included Imhotep, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Zhang Heng, Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, Al-Kindi, and many more. They were those who laid the foundation for science, maths, literature and the arts, as we know them today. The beauty is in the coming together of so many disciplines, so many SuperBrainic ideas. Where you have observation and analysis on one side, you also have the beauty of language and arts on the other. This balance is necessary to understand our world as a whole. So, can you be a SuperBrain too? Perhaps you can, if you explore yourself fully. So when you study hard for those upcoming exams, don’t forget those other skills that bring you joy and laughter, that make you ‘you’. All the best!
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.