About this issue
What’s Special? Partyyy! It’s Tinkle’s Anniversary! We kick-start the celebrations with a brand new Toon, an exclusive comics story from cricket superstar Virat Kohli himself, a mega Toon mash-up story, challenging puzzles, and more! Say hello to Buchki, the new Tinkle Toon! She’s an eight-year-old from Boodanga... who can see ghosts and demons, the things she’d thought were the stuff of folktales! But what can she do with this power, considering she’s scared of all ghosts? Join her as she discovers her strengths in Buchki and the Booligans: Jamun Jamboree. Virat Kohli takes us back to when he was 15 years old and a student of West Delhi Cricket Academy. Virat was challenged by his teammates to go out in the dark on a dare. Did he do it? What happened next? Find out in The Monster of the Dark. The Tinkle Toons go looking for a creature that has been spooking people in Aizwa. Will WingStar, Aisha, Tantri, Shambu, and Billy find it... or will the creature find them first? Check out the Mega Mash-Up Stranger Sightings. Zayan loses his milk teeth for which his friends tease him. So he goes on a quest to replace those teeth, but nothing works out. Just then an unlikely friend comes to his aid. Who could it be? Find out in A G(l)um Affair. Put your brains to the test with a baffling case at the Tinkle Anniversary party in You Be the Detective. Plus, push your creativity to its limits with a lavish colouring challenge pull-out, especially for the Anniversary! Also Starring: Suppandi spares no one, not even the Tinkle Toons at the Tinkle Anniversary party, with his hare-brained ideas in Ketchup Catch-up. Ina and Mynah go sandboarding in the desert and lose their way. Watch how they navigate their way back in Eye of the Storm. And Wai Knot thinks making a home-made volcano is simple... until things get out of hand in On My Own.
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.