About this issue
What’s Special? We get festive as we mark Navaratri, International Day of Older Persons, Wildlife Week, Gandhi Jayanti, and World Space Week, all in one issue! It’s Dandiya season and Ravi, Rahul and Sam are eager to impress. But a priceless pair of dolls go missing from a Navaratri display. Where will their bumbling investigation lead them now? Find out in Defective Detectives: ‘Stick’y Business. Take a trip to the wild with a little pig and a ferocious tiger. The pig innocently challenges the tiger to a fight and then later realizes his folly. Check out how he outwits the mighty beast in the Meghalayan folktale, The Stink. Tantri urges Hooja to organize the Elder Games to honour the older people in Hujli. But he’s secretly plotting to have Hooja annoy the Council of Elders that has the power to dethrone him. Will he succeed? Find out in Tantri the Mantri: Council of Elders. Ragini rallies the senior citizens in her complex to launch a peaceful protest for their playground to be cleaned up. Does it work? Check out Walkabout. Plus, discover the fascinating details of the Juno space mission to Jupiter in Tinkle Tells You Why. And laugh your heart out at ridiculously funny puns especially on animals in Pun-A-Thon. Also Starring: Suppandi is confused by something as simple as a pair of socks in Good Fitting. Venus is under threat from the crazy scientist Aercus. It’s up to Commander Vercus to stop her in the thrilling Vercus and Aercus. And WingStar embarks on a mission to rescue her parents but is met by a very dangerous enemy in It’s Payback Time.
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.