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A special ‘thank you’ to teachers everywhere, this issue sees Suppandi in a new avatar. You’ve got it! As a teacher in ‘School Rules’. That’s not all. Teachers rule in our It Happened to Me, Spotlight and Great Tinkle Circus segments. The IHTM compiles the Tinkle Team’s favourite memories of their teachers. Spotlight has us in a tête-à-tête with college principal, Dr. Beena Punjabi. As for the GTC, it is filled with dedications from students to teachers!This month, we also have Ajay, Dental Diaries, Kalia the Crow and Shikari Shambu giving Suppandi company. Ajay and Neeti tackle a new adventure in ‘Underground Secret’. Not to be left behind, Billy sets out to rescue his mother but ends up in a trap! Read all about it in ‘New Dangers’. Meanwhile, how do the animals of Big Baan fare in a football match? Find out in the concluding part of Kalia the Crow’s ‘Let’s Play a Game’. Talking about animals, Shikari Shambu has a tough time confronting ‘Feline Problems’. And if that’s not enough we also have two delightful tales in ‘The Prankster’ and ‘Age No Bar’. Enjoy!

The flavour of Independence Day rules our fun cover, designed specially by Savio Mascarenhas. It also inspired us to come out with a delightful article, the ‘Indian Masketeers’, exploring Indian culture through its various masks. We also have ‘Dotty and the Albino Dragon’, the First Prize winning story in the Tinkle Original Story Competition. Moving on, we have three popular characters this issue, Shikari Shambu, Kalia the Crow and the Defective Detectives. Shambu goes on a rollicking ‘Jumbo Adventure in Assam’ while the Defective Detectives have a spine-chilling experience in ‘The Horror’. As for Kalia, can you imagine him, Chamataka and Doob Doob playing together? If you can’t, you should check out ‘Let’s Play a Game’. Next, enjoy a fun story by a reader, ‘Show Business’ in our Fan Fiction segment along with ‘Pranav’s Dadi and the Karate Kid’, where Dadi tries her hand at karate! And to wrap it up we have two diverse stories about two brave men who refused to give up. So check out ‘A Mighty Will’ and ‘No Crazy Ideas’. Enjoy!

July is all about the fun and excitement of going back to school. So, we begin with a zany Butterfingers story ‘School Escort’. What happens when Butter is made responsible for getting a tiny tot to school? Disaster? You bet! Following soon after, is our Tinkle Original Story Competition second prize winner, ‘Mission LKG Admission’, a light-hearted look at the maddening process of school admissions. And then we take you ‘On a Little Spin’ all because Little Shambu and Little Suppandi make a wish to skip their school years. Can you imagine a dinosaur let loose in your school? You would, if you had read ‘Brain+Brawn’. We are not done yet for the school mania has gotten into our feature pages as well. If you love puns you should love ‘Pun’ishment Time and if you have ever wished for gadgets to make school life easy, you should be thrilled with ‘Here Comes School’. We move on to the fun feature ‘Ten Ways to Make the Best of School Days’ and to cap it all we have a special Tinkle Time Table just for you! Apart from our school special, do check out the next chapter in The Puppy Chronicles ‘Horus the Saviour’ and the wicked antics of Tantri in ‘A Matter of Opinion’. Enjoy!

What happens when final exams are round the corner and holidays are too? You are driven to distraction and so are Ina, Mina, Mynah and Mo in Hurry Up, Holidays! Meanwhile, Pranav and his Dadi get caught up in a ketchup war. Whose side would you choose? But before you do that, what if you come across a time machine? Would you boldly press ‘go’? That’s what Tojo does but what happens to him? Find out in Tojo’s Time Machine. But don’t stop there, for Shikari Shambu is about to unveil the mysterious monster in the sea in the concluding part of The Big Burp Theory. A Spotlight interview with Environment Editor Bahar Dutt, the end of the Sagar Parikrama series with Lt. Cdr. Abhilash Tomy and loads of plans for the summer, wrap up this issue. Enjoy!

What do we have for May? Strategies, conspiracy theories and the attack of the mummies! What happens when a colony of misers is beset by a man who believes in generosity? And how will he turn the tables on his miser friends? Look out for a world gone mad in Show Me the Money. Meanwhile, Tantri is in for a surprise; he gets the chance to be king. But will he like it? Now that’s a question! The Dental Diaries takes Billy the Vampire on a new quest for his fangs into the heartland of the mummies, the pyramids. But this time, has he bitten off more than he can chew? Mummy Knows Best! Do also read a delightful Spotlight interview with Sachindra Nath Paul, a sculptor who has worked with palaeontologists, yes, building models of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures! May you a fun time this May!

And so comes March with all its madness and a variety of characters, from adventurers and weirdos to plotters and fangless vampires. There is Shambu testing out The Big Burp Theory and Kalia the Crow making A Zoological Discovery in his new avatar. SuperWeirdos go Boink!, Tantri the Mantri gets a taste of life in Cinemapur while Billy the Vampire tries to get back his fangs in Dental Diaries: Facing the World. Enjoy!

Fun, fun and more fun. This issue has more pages, more Tinkle Toons and loads of exciting features. After all we celebrate both the Tinkle Anniversary and Children’s Day on November 14! So, the theme for the issue is 3-bute. We pay 3-bute to the iconic writers and artists of Tinkle with get-to-know features on Subba Rao, Luis Fernandes, Ram Waeerkar, VB Halbe, Pradeep Sathe and Dev Nadkarni. What’s more? Each feature is accompanied by a story from our Classics! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a Sherlock Holmes ComiClassic feature in our 3-bute to famous authors. What better 3-bute to our beloved readers than a Fan Fiction story? And finally, we have a 3-bute to Tinkle Toons. With an All-Toon issue, we have nearly all characters featuring in this issue, whether through individual stories or mash-ups. So, there’s Suppandi in his new avatar of Super Suppandi, Shikari Shambu, Dental Diaries, Ina Mina Mynah Mo, SuperWeirdoes, Tantri the Mantri... need we go on? Not to be left behind are a Spotlight on one of Tinkle’s founders Subba Rao, Things You Didn’t Know About the Tinkle Team, and to wrap it all up, a sweet incident from Uncle Pai’s life. Oh, did we forget the FREE Tinkle Toon book labels inside the issue? Enjoy!

‘For you, Gran and Gramps’ is the theme this October. And we have a fun story and a heartwarming story, both celebrating our beloved grandparents. Pranav’s Dadi takes the lead and has a blast in The Party. Boo! takes on the double theme of grandparents and Halloween, with thrills and chills to boot. Our Pick Your Brains section too has grandparents at its core. What’s more, the issue is crowded with Tinkle Toons. The Defective Detectives let their imaginations lose in Kidnapped while Suppandi gets up to his usual tricks in Sign Language. Rags gets a chance and he Walks the Ramp in style while Tantri learns the value of True Friends from Hooja. Moving to villages and forests, Pyarelal acquires a New Friend while the Halloween-themed Shikari Shambu raises goosebumps with Chance Meetings. For all those who love to drum a table or strum a guitar, this issue we have the Spotlight on the fascinating percussionist Sivamani. Enjoy!

We welcome June with an Environment Day special story ‘That’s My Friend’, a charming tale about friendship. Next, we leap on to Egypt where mummies are waking up to keep Billy, the vampire, away from what he wants most—a new pair of fangs, in the concluding part of the Dental Diaries’ story Mummy Knows Best. And then it’s time for drum rolls, for we have the third prize winning story from the Tinkle Original Story Contest—Saran’s Baby Sister. Read on to find out how Saran bonds with his new baby sister who’s been taking all attention away from him. In Test of Taste Buds, we have grandpa Murthy discovering the hidden chef inside him and deciding to go up against the Ladies Club members in a cooking contest. Pyarelal comes back to us in yet another delightful tale ‘Home Garden’, closely followed by Snowy, a story about a girl who simply hates her name! For those who love superheroes we have two stories this issue. There’s a snappy tale from the SuperWeirdos ‘Zap!’ followed by ‘I am Superhero’. Enjoy!

What’s new for the new year? Two new series—one, a four-legged detective duo from our classics segment, Mopes and Purr, the other a brand new adventures of Horus, the puppy, in The Puppy Chronicles. Check out what new cases the dog and cat pair take on and enjoy the fantastic adventures that Horus has, this issue. Pyarelal returns with Daboo’s Dhaba and if you are a fan of Sherlock Holmes, check out Know Thy Neighbour. A new section, Word Play, takes you on a fun game of all those confusing, long words you spot in the magazine. What’s more? We have a pull-out cube-shaped Tinkle Planner 2013 just for you. Enjoy and a Happy New Year!

February is packed with fun for we have Mopes & Purr, Horus the pup and Butterfingers all making merry on our pages. Horus turns protector of Earth in the next instalment of The Puppy Chronicles while Butterfingers and his friends are gripped by the Fencing Fever. Check out Suppandi’s Nobel Intentions, as you go adventuring with the cat and dog detective duo to The Last Resort. We bring you the cultural highlights for the next few months in the new feature Fete This!, a Spotlight interview with stand-up comic Ashish Shakya and further stories from Lt. Cdr. Abhilash Tomy on board the Mhadei in The Nautical Tales. Enjoy!

A Collector’s edition that is bigger, brighter and better, Tinkle 600 is jam-packed with 118 pages of pure fun! Keeping the focus on our milestone number ‘6’, we have ‘6’ stories from some of the best storytellers in the country—Samit Basu, Anoushka Ravishankar, Samhita Arni, Roopa Pai, Vishwajyoti Ghosh and Priya Kurien. Peppering the pages are quotes from well known personalities such as Shankar Mahadevan, Ruskin Bond, Bachendri Pal and Imtiaz Ali. Tinkle Spotlight features an interview with Nandita Das, actor and chairperson of the Children’s Film Society, India. This is an issue packed with all your favourite characters—Suppandi, Shikari Shambu, Tantri the Mantri, Defective Detectives, Butterfingers and more. Come be a part of our celebrations!