About this issue
What’s Special? Come laugh, play, learn, and explore with yet another action-packed issue of Tinkle! · Who’s Shaurya? That’s exactly the question Shikari Shambu ponders as a mysterious forest warrior turns up to take down poachers. · Heer and Aisha have won free tickets to Apu Melody’s special Navaratri show. But something evil is brewing underneath it all in SuperWeirdos: Chak Chak Chak. · Anaya thinks she can survive in the wild by herself. That is until Durga Puja, when she’s lost in a forest... by herself in Jungle Bungle. · And YOU get to decide the Tinkle Toons’ next adventure! Vote for a new SuperWeird power in the Tinkle IdeaStar Contest Voting. Also Starring: Suppandi buys a new printer with hilariously goofy results in Customer Care. Wai Knot sneaks off to catch his favourite scientist in action, while trouble waits for him in Lesson Learned. Bala and Aribam want to make their own student film. But disaster always seems to be around the corner in The Blockbuster. And Kavi thinks she can make a rare flower bloom with her unusual methods in Night Pickings.
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.