About this issue
What’s Special? Join us as we celebrate Eid and honour the teachers in our lives with an action-packed issue of Tinkle! · Buchki at a yo-yo competition while a mischievous ghost lurks around... What could go wrong? Find out in the Eid special story Buchki and the Booligans: Spicy Spectre. · Sam and Mynah have a war of words as they fight over each other’s knowledge of famous teachers in Know-It-All: They Were Teachers?! · Dushta creates a special throne to transport Hooja to another planet. But with Hooja’s luck, things are bound to go wrong for Tantri in Tantri the Mantri: Portal Paradise. · Seniors are on the warpath! And they’re bullying the juniors into doing their bidding. Follow the chaos in NOIS: Party Animals. · And YOU get to decide the Tinkle Toons’ next adventure! Vote for your new favourite Dental Diaries monster in the Tinkle IdeaStar Contest Voting. Also Starring: Suppandi wants to be healthy, but manages to mess up that too in Water Works. Prachi and her uncle Lalit are caught in a snowstorm on top of a mountain in Rickety Roads. And Pyarelal tries a new hair oil to help him grow hair, but it does more harm than good in Root of the Problem.
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.