About this issue
What’s Special? Happy New Year! Kick-start 2017 with plenty of laughs, adventures and activities, all packed into the new issue of Tinkle! Shambu is out to save gorillas in the Congo rainforest. But he gets into a spectacular jam with a poacher instead. Check out Shikari Shambu: Bouncing Around. Buchki has a hair-raising adventure when a demon called a Sheekal hypnotizes children at a fair. How will she save herself this time? Find out in Buchki and the Booligans: Musical Cacophony. Wai sneaks out to attend his parents’ New Year party and ends up with another mess on his hands. What now? Check out Wai Knot: Backup Plan. Roop tells the story of Halla Singh the demon scarecrow. Her friends don’t believe he’s real, until he shows up to curse them all! Find out what happens next in Halla Singh Returns. And make your own zigzag Tinkle planner for 2017 that’ll adorn your desk! Also Starring: Things get explosive when Suppandi goofs up at a fireworks shop in Seeing is Believing. Siblings Muthu and Malini discover they’re in a train that’s haunted by a phantom thief in The Railway Phantom. And a huge meteor is hurtling towards Earth! So a dragon and its three human friends decide to save the day in Saving Earth.
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.