About this issue
What’s Special? We get tricksy with this issue as we pack this fortnightly with tales from cunning tricksters and more! Buchki is on the tail of a mysterious force that lures people out of bed and vanishes them in Buchki and the Booligans: A Good Nut’s Sleep. Doob Doob with dumb-bells and Chamataka up to mischief! Now what do you get? Read on in Kalia the Crow: Flexin’. Tantri joins hands with his grandfather and Dushtabuddhi to create the perfect scheme to take down Hooja. Will luck favour Tantri this time? Find out in Tantri the Mantri: Family Matters! What happens when a tortoise disguises himself as a bird? Find out in The Flying Tortoise. Also Starring: Super Suppandi encounters a mighty beast in Monitor Menace. Mansi and Rihaan discover secret codes in Greek scratched on their school desk. They’re sure some sinister plot is brewing in It’s All Greek to Me! And Kareem coughs up a bird’s feather which he asks his wife to keep secret. But can she? Check out A Rumour Takes Wing.
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.