Was deciding between Outlook and Business World, when i happened to see this book... A comic book by the name 'Champak' ... Dunno how many of you would have read this magazine...
Well,,, Champak used to be one of my favourite magazines when i was in my class 2 - 5... :D Every fortnight i would eagerly wait for my mom to bring my copy home... :)
I actually had such a huge collection of Champaks that mom made it into bound volumes for me combining 5 copies each... I went down the nostalgic lane.. Ok.. there ends the flashback...!
I decided to pick up a copy of champak and see as to how much the magazine has changed... :) Well... firstly.. wrt the price... It was Rs5/- the last time i read it.. and now it is priced at Rs12/-
Not bad actually... An increase of 7 bucks in 14 yrs... With great eagerness and a lot of enthu...I started reading the contents....
Nothing AT ALL had changed...
The jokes column with the same kind of humor faces drawn around the page...
"Find your way through the maze" puzzle...
"Join the dots" to find out the bird/animal
The center page board game, which i used to preserve by sticking it on a piece of cardboard...
The same "Cheeku Das" comedy strip of a clever rabbit...
The "Know your facts" column which contained all kinds of 'Tell me why' stuff...
All the stories with animals and kids.. with all kinds of morals... Everything was the same...
I was astonished as to how well i could remember the contents as if i had read it yesterday... The stories - EXTREMELY silly for grownups... ;)
A sample:
There was this story about a dad who gifted his son a robot dog...The robot was intelligence personified... One day when the boy was alone in the house, a thief, who called himself his dad's friend entered the house..He gave the boy chocolates which had sleeping pills...
The dog senses that the man has malicious intentions and immediately it goes to the boy's parents room.. it telephones the police and tells them everything thats happening... The police and the parents arrive and the dog plays the thief's activities which it recorded in its inbuilt cam.. and they arrest the thief..!!
Aaaarrrrgggghhhh i went.... and smiled to myself... Wondered how the hell i read such intolerable stuff !! But bet, must have been interesting then...when we were kids...
There was one more where theres a monkey which never shares the fruits of a tree with anyone and how the inmats of the forest teach a lesson to the monkey and it realizes that sharing spreads happiness.. :)
So many strories.. about animals, their forests.. how they lived in harmony... Some moral in every story..
Was a pleasure reading it after a long time, even though u cant expect any kind of logic.. Cumon.. kid magazines right?? ;)
Next came the stage of Gokulam, tinkle, Archies, Tintin.. etc... I still preserve those issues of Gokulam in which my articles were published.. :) Another trip down memory lane...
Even today, if i can get hold of a Tinkle Digest issue.. i wud not leave it till i am done with it... :D Comics are always fun... are they not? :)
23 comments:
pretty much on the lines of what i was about to say. many of those stories are better than the trash thats dished out by many of the better novelists this day...
tinkle still does rock.. and i would run all the way those days to get a phantom or a chacha chaudhry comic
venkat
of course they are.... now after reading ur blog, i want to read tinkle, champak, chandamama etc... but theres no way i can get it here.:(
comics are always fun, even today i read DC comics like justice league, spiderman, super man, and my favourite happens to be asterix. comics are damn good fun
mes now also read champak and cahandamama, tinkle it a lot better than other books which by mistake i read.
i have never been a fan of comics but if i find some of them will browse through for all those kutti kutti games (like the maze, join dots, etc., u had mentioned) and will quickly turn pages to see if any picture of a comic character attracts me :-)...
u jus spoke my mind !
cha , i want to read these mags now :-(....u got articles in gokulam ??!!! now , i know y u r so illogical :p
---monsh
@venkat
agreed completely!
@mayur
dont these magazines have an online version or something,??
@vatsan
asterix rocks! read it even now on my computer!:D
@awakeningcoma
:D nice.. neengaluma?
@naikutti
yeah.. attractive/captivating characters is what make them click..
@sujay
again? :) nice!
@monsh
yayyy.. gokulam is not at all illogical.. its a level above champak n all da.. and when my articles were published, i was in class 6 or 7.. :D ippa konja thearirukka maatena? :D
me too ..me too .. i like tinkle and even now i had love to get my hands on them .
Yes, Gokulam was my favourite.. it was'nt a comic book like tinkle.. and was intended for early teens.. miss those books..
let another 10 years pass by.tht wud b the apt time to read comics.:)
which station and which train r u talking about?
naan padicha kadaisu book adhu dhaan :D
Hi Sudha,
I remember having grown up on a diet of comics. It began with comics like 'Chacha Choudhary' & 'Amar Chitra Katha'. Then I had Tinkle & Disney Today. And finally graduated with Tintin, Calvin & Archies. During the school days, I thought I had a really huge collection of hundred of comics.
Its been so long. But even today I try to catch a glimpse of the cartoon strip in Sunday Times. It still takes me back to those carefree childhood days :)
online version.... not that i am aware of... let me know if u come across any.
went missing ah ? rombha velai ah ?
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