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Oh how can one forget the series involving Raja Vikramaditya and the Beethala (ghost). It was with uncontrollable excitement that I would hold these magazines as they were delivered on the appointed day in the month. Panchatantra taught valuable life lessons through stories involving characters like foxes, elephants and humans with names like dushta buddi (evil mind) and paapa buddi (bad mind). I can also recall that eerie picture at the end of the Mahabharatha epic, the picture in which Yudishtira accompanied by a dog, crosses the Vaitharni river to enter the 'after-life' world.Īt the beginning of the magazine was the Panchatantra series by Vishnu Sharma. I still remember the beautiful representation of Amaravathi - the beautiful capital city of the gods in heaven. Thinking about it now, I feel a lot our mental pictures of ancient India has been painted by magazines like Chandamama and Amar Chitra Katha. When my mother noticed my excitement at reading Chandamama in my aunt's house, she made the decision to subscibe it and I became a regular reader.
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Besides this, there was the image of the most spectacular Ashoka Vana, which occupied one full page. From this tall perch he was staring down at Ravana. That particular issue had a picture of Hanuman, his tail wound to form a huge pedestal for himself to sit on. Flipping through a few pages was enough to suck me into the wonderful magical world this small magazine, namely Chandamama, had created. A small book sized magazine caught my eye with its colorful pictures and grand representations of Indian mythology. I remember that one day I had gone to my aunt's house with my mother. As children, I, my brother and my cousins enjoyed reading comics strips such as Dabu, Majnu, Shuja, Inspector Azad. Reading it and discussing its contents formed part of the family's activities.
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It was a very dignified weekly which catered to refined tastes with serial stories (dharavahi), cartoons, photo comics, interviews and a decent film section. Once a week (on Wednesdays) we would receive 'Sudha' the Kannada magazine which had a loving fan-following among Kannadigas. During those days we got the English daily Deccan Herald, delivered to our home. Looking at the various pictures and stories I was transported back to my primary school days in Bangalore. The link to Chandamama website is at the end of this article. You can go to the archives and choose older issuea and read them as if you are flipping the printed magazine. It has various categories and you can look up older stories. The website is pretty cool with links to Chandamama in various Indian languages as well as in English. As soon as I heard about Chandamama's web presence I was there looking up the web page. While I enjoyed the article for many reasons, one thing that hit me deep was that it pointed out a link to the website of my childhood's favorite magazine 'Chandamama' - the colorful publication which came every month and contained colorful illustrations and stories. The link to podcast version is provided at the end of this article. Starting with Jagjeet Singh's ghazal "yeh daulat bhi lelo" about getting back childhood, he had gone on to reminisce about one's younger days. In his recent writeup he had written about the wonderful days of one's childhood. My friend Srivatsha Joshi writes a weekly column 'Paraga Sparsha' in the Kannada daily Vijaya Karnataka. Talk to the older generation and the mere mention of Chandamama takes them to a world where information and entertainment were bundled in a comic format.Today I saw my childhood's favorite magazine Chandamama for the first time in more than 2 decades.
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Today, the old editions of this magazine is back for the audience in digital format in English, Telugu and Hindi, and are available for free on the official website. The magazine continued to allure its readers till July, 2013 enjoying a mass readership base of over 2,00,000 people. Veera Raghavan, who signed her work as Chithra among many others. Acharya whose painting brought the Mysore Dasara Exhibition alive in canvas it fostered the seeds of gender equality and empowerment with T. It also became a launchpad for artists like M.T.V. The famous Vikram-Betal stories, too, were launched through this magazine.Īdapted from the ancient Sanskrit work Baital Pachisi, the never-ending story of King Vikramāditya and Vetala (Vampire), brought wide repute to this magazine. Packaging the stories and folklores with illustrations, Chandamama brought back grandparents tales in fashion. Before the advent of Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha, Chacha Chowdhary, or even The Adventures of Tintin and Archie Comics- one comic book captured the imagination of India even before the nation got freedom.