Amar fis negues Wallpaper for school notice boards Here is news for Schooi Principais The house of Amar Chitra Katha presents an attractive new medium of instruction—the educational Amar India Wallpaper, specially designed for your school notice boards. Your students will find the colourfully illustrated items on history, geography, animal life, general knowledge and current topics quite irresistible. Amar india Wall- paper can also be used as an excellent teaching aid, stimulating the interest of children in a variety of subjects, All at an annual subscription of fust Rs. 10/- for 10 issues. Send in your subscription today or write for a free sample to : fi India Book House Education Trust From the house of Mahalaxmi Chambers, 1st floor Bhulabhai Desai Road Bombay 400 026 } India Book House Pvt. Ltd. all rights reserved April 5, 1983 Published by H.G. Mirchandani, for India Book House Pvt. Ltd. Mahalexmi Chambers, 22, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Bombay 400 026 and printed by him at IBH Printers, Maro! Naka, Mathuradas Vissanji Road, Andheri (East), Bombay 400 059. Editor : Anant Pai Associate Editors : Nira Benegal and Luis M. Fernandes Art Consultant : Pradeep Sathe Production : M.B. ShettyCorer . competition no. 4 THE TIGER’S An Assamese Folktale Story by : Bandita Phukan Mlustrations : V.B. Halbe se AND HE TOO SAW THE COWS, HE BEGAN TO CREEP TOWARLS THE SHED. | HOPE THE LONG-LEGGED ONES DON’T COME DOWN TONIGHT. ANYWAY AS SOON AS THE WOMAN CLOSED THE WINDOW; THE TWO INTRUDERS RUSHED TOWARDS THE SHED.THE MAN GOT IN AIST BEFORE THE eee AND NEITHER OF THEM SAW EACH 0; THIS. COW ooser SEEM TO JOO HEALTHY, om { HER ...OR YOU CAN BE SURE SHE'S Om SICK. 7 TINKLEWHAT A WAY SHE JUMPED ! SHE'S SMALL BUT SHE'S HEALTHY. _ | COME ON IT MUST BE ONE OF |THE LONG-LEGGED ONES! |WHO ELSE WOULD DARE TOUCH ME PMY GODUT MUST BE ONE OF THE fy LONG -LEGGED. QSIWWE BRO a wi! dees Yin] Bs A MONSTER CAUGHT ME «2 PULLED OFF ART OF M' entiST'S TCH THE =i RASCAL. ss & YES, OTHERWISE TOMORROW HE?LL COME AND PULL OFF | “our TALS Too! 7THE TIGERS SEARCHED THE SINGLE.» . 7 \ — 7; if D E Oy A \ ; 7 ‘HI =)OH> YOU TAIL-LESS. ONE 150 YOUVE BROUGHT YOUR FRIENDS. TINKLE éOUR LEADER AND THE “TAIL-LESS ONE ARE RUNNING Away! THE MONSTER MUST. BE A FEROCIOUS CREATURE! SAVED? BUT NO MORE ie Me FIEOM NO 1 : EARN MY BREAD : To our readers : HONESTLY. Things have ended well for the thief. But what about the tiger who lost his tail ? What do you think, he'll do now ? Try to develop this story further in about 500 words. Send in your entry within 15 days from the date of publication. Rs. 50/- for the best entry received. The entries should be sent to: TINKLE, The Story-Relay Contest. TINKLEBased on a story sent by Mlustrations : Anand Mande The Seven-horse C arriage sss erss° THE KING OF A CERTAIN COUNTeY HAD A CARRIAGE PRAWN BY SEVEN STALLIONS. ELSE SHOULD HAVE A CARRIAGE, LIKE MINE! ONE DAY AS THE KING WAS RIPING MAKE IT A CRIME - FOR ANUBOPY TO HAVE A CARRIAGE PRAWN \ BY SEVEN STALLIONS. THROUGH THE TOWN— HOW FAST THAT CARRIAGE GOES! ite 7 ge rota HE WENT HOME AND STARTED PESTERING HIS PERHAPS IT’S BECAUSE THERE ARE THE Bod WAS THE SON OF A ZAMINDAR ‘ FATHER TO GET HIM A CARRIAGE PRAWN BY SEVEN STALLIONS. IT’S NOT ALLOWE! SON . THE KING WOULD PUT ME IN PRISON, TINKLETHE BOY BECAME VERY SAP. FINALLY HIS) FATHER. GAVE IN. ALL RIGHT, YOU SHALL HAVE YOUR. CARRIAGE. WHAT A FOOLISH THING TO DO! THE KING WILL BE FURIOUS WHEN HE HEARS ABOUT IT! IN A CARRIAGE DRAWN BY SEVEN STALLIONS, THE KING WAS INDEED VERY ANGRY ANP HE SUMMONEP THE ZAMINDAR TO HIS COURT. TINKLESEE, THERE IT IS! YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF. HOW DARE You LIE TOME! THERE ARE SEVEN, STALLIONS YOKED YOUR SON HAS MY PERMISSION TO AM PROUD TO HAVE SUCH A4 READERS’ W Based ona story sent by Mex <= =) ioe einer ey THERE WAG ONCE aon ou lWHO WAS ALWAYS SHOWING OFF. | A VEEY STRONG MAN IN A KING'S. 1 CAN! | CAN DO MORE: 1 CAN CARRY A HILL. I CAN PRINK ALL THE WATER IN THE RIVER. ARE JOKING, if AND IF 1AM "LL BREAK “OUR /[ NOT P WHATBUT PLL HAVE TO THE STRONS MAN HAD THE BEST FOOD IN TOWN. FO! SENT TO THE YOUTH, THE WHOLE TOWN GATHERED TO WATCH [742 SHOW. = ee 2 ‘s “Cros Di ] yea es @)) (7: Da (T, NOT LIFT IT! ALL RIGHT, (OU WIN THIS ROUND. BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO DRINK ALL THE WATER IN THE RIVER!THE YOLINS MAN WADED NTO THE RIVER, WHERE wi . AM | NOW, IN THE i } SIRP RIVER... ME FILLED A JUG FROM THE RIVER AND CRANKS ALL THE WHAT A CLEVER FELLOW! 7\ ae DON’T BE ANGRY, SiR.) DID IT JUST FOR FUN. | DON’T TRICKSTER! IeP’LL owe THE KING,700,WAS PLEASED. HERE ARE A HUNDRED GOLD COINS FOR T3.&\ YOuR TROUBLE, |] mg? \ YOUNG MAN! WELL YOU ARE VERY CLEVER, MY YOUNG a e y X 13 TINKLEMOST FISH HAVE AN AIR BLADDER, AIR. 19 LIGHTER THAN WATER.TO | RISE, THE FISH FORCES MORE AIR. INTO IT6 AIR BLAPPER. # (7 TO GO DOWN INTO THE WATER, IT LETS AIR OUT. AIR BLAPDER A SUBMARINE I$ LIKE A FISH, 1T HAS TANKS ON ITS SIDES, To MAKE IT GO DOWN, WATER 1S FORCED INTO THE TANKS AND THE SHIP BECOMES HEAVY ENOUGH TO SINK. | WHEN (7 HAS TO COME UP, AIR 19 FORCED (NTO THE TANKS AND THE WATER IS DRIVEN OUT. TINKLE va OO@ FISH HAS ITS Tale AND FING TO HELP IT 70 MOVE THROUGH THE WATER. THE ee 1S DRIVEN BY ITS PROPELLER AND STEERED TO LEFT AND RIGHT UDDER, UF THE oe 4S DRIVEN BY ELECTRIC MOTORS, THE SUBMARINE HAS TO COME UP FOR WOW AND THEN BECAUSE THE ELECTRIC MOTORS ARE POWERED By BATTERIES. S BaTIEe! TERIES ARE RECHARGED UNDERWATER BY DIESEL ENGINES, BUT THE DIESEL ENGINES NEED AIR TO FUNCTION. HOWEVER, IF IT 15 DRIVEN BY NUCLEAR POWER LIKE THIS BUBMARING, oT CAN STAY YNDER WATER FOR Monts, TWO EARLY SUBMARINES; THE NAUTILUS BUILT BY THE TURTLE’ BUILT IN 1778. HENRY FULTON tN 1900. = 45 THNKLEYou will need : A table-lamp; a Fun with shadows Barestiallfars seresn cud aoa Ideas by Rajakaka hands, of course ! mal hig | Hold up the cut-outs in front of alampas shown If you do it right. you'll see a mouse sitting up a few feet away on your wall. Move its tail and your outstretched finger and see it begging for food ! head and tail of a mouse on it. Now that you have a mouse in the house, you'll need a cat to catch it. Every self-respecting cat needs whiskers and your shadow-cat will need whiskers too. Cut them out from a piece of stiff paper. Hold up your hands and the cut-out on either side of your head as shown and you have your cat !My young friends, A very unusual function took place in Bombay on a Sunday morning some time ago. It was a TINKLE Quiz Contest, with over 200 children taking part— but do you know who the Chief Guest was? Your very own dog detective—RANJHAI Ranjha came with his trainer and owner, Partap Sharma. He behaved impeccably and showed the children several tricks of detection. He was the star of the show, received much applause and shouts of approval, accepted a garland and posed for photographs! And after the show, he was mobbed. So the TINKLE Quiz Contest was a grand success. All questions were based on what you read in TINKLE and there were three lucky winners. We have organized many TINKLE Quiz Contests, not only in Bombay, but also in Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Goa and other places. We hope to organize many more. Ranjha of course, will find it very difficult tO travel out of Bombay. So out-of-towners will have to do without this most gracious and intelligent of chief guests! Affectionately yours, PuonttLar Uncle Pai RANJHA AND PARTAP SHARMACee ee ee ee eS ee TINKLE SUBSCRIPTIONS All new subscriptions and renewals of the old ones are accepted at: PARTHA BOOKS DIVISION Nav Prabhat Chambers, Ranade Road, Dader, Bombay 400 028 The annual subscription rate for 24 issues is Rs. 72/- per year (add Rs. 3/- on outstation cheques). Drafts/cheaues/M.O. should be in favour of PARTHA BOOKS DIVISION, Ail. complaints pertaining to the old subscriptions (upto subscription No, 5000) should be adoressed to india Book House Magazine Co, 249, D.N. Road, Bombay-400 001 Readers’ Contributions should be addressed to Editor, TINKLE, Mahalaxmi Chambers, (Basement), 22, Bhulabhai Desai Road, Bombay 400 026. Mail your entry to Tinkle Competition Section, P. Bag No, 16541, Bombay 400 026. 1 Rs.1 0-will be paid for every original idea accepted| TINKLE TRICKS AND TREATS 2. With your entry you could send a self-addressed stamped (50 paise) envelope and collect 3 animal stickers. rend a self-addressed stamped envelope if you want the story to be returned. + Piease do not send photographs until asked for. + For “Readers” Choice” please send only folk- tales you have heard and not those you have read in books, magazines or textbooks. Rs. 25/- will be paid for every accepted contribution. Mooshik = This Happened to Me: You can write on your own strange, thrilling, or amusing experience or adventure. Ris. 15]- will be paid for every accepted contribution Reader's Mail : 1. Mail your letters to P. Bag No. 16541, Bombay 400 026. : 2. Please give your address in your letters, if you wanta reply. | 3. The first 400 all-correct entries received by us will each win a copy of the AMAR INDIA WALL PAPER No. 12 dated February 1983. See ee ee ee ee CUT HERES T1T-29 ENTRY FORM MY SOLUTIONS: NAME. A ADDRESS. B STATE, PINSee and smile Thank you very much for giving us an opportunity to read TINKLE every 15 days. Srinivasan S. Bi angalore Uncle, after reading the story “The fee ae oa Considerate Shopkeeper” in TINKLE No. 25 got a lot of knowledge about shopping. Rajesh Chhilwar | am satisfied with your magazine TINKLE. It is a wonderful magazine. From next. issue “please give us a topic that we children could plcutta write as a poem. Whichever poem is best. please publish in TINKLE, We do not care for iit ld . b cash or prizes. What we gain is wish you would print stories written by great | gneouragement Indian authors All the readers of TINKLE will ef Manoj Kumar know the authors of India if they do not Hyderabad already B. Ravi Chandra. | -_-—-_____t Bangalore I have been reading TINKLE regularly. | enjoy reading it. In Tinkle No. 25 you showed us how to make beads. | learnt to make lovely beads. Hope you will teach us many more such items Your TINKLE helped me in my exam in the subject S.U.P.W. (Socially Useful Productive Work). We were asked to make a comic of a D. Purnima short story. | couldn't find it anywhere and at Bangalore last | found it in TINKLE, and got good marks. Anand Kumar Dimapur As soon as the month comes to an end I run to my parents for some money. They ask the reason why and I say it’s for ‘TINKLE’, They rise up in excitement and without another HATVREE Naz 0s "Our-sunsthei ster wee word hand over the money and thet is how very interesting. Could you publish more word hand overthe mnoneysana that eat stories like that? * Rohit Sharangapani Sharmila Godinho Vishekhapatniam coding TINKLE 20MEET THE SEAHORSE cams | ana sincee” i Ate. re aren OF WARM SEAB. illustrations : Pradeep Sathe HERE“S ONE SWIMMING TOWARDS A ARRIVING AT THe SEAWEED, HE SEAWEED. HE SWIMS UPRIGHT, ANCHORS HINIGELF 7O 17 BY CURLING UGINE HS DORSAL FIN TO MOVE MIS TAIL ROUND [T+ FORWARD, ZB 11:4AND BEGINS LOOKING HE GEES AG THEY DRAW NEAR, HE FOR FOOD. EACH OF HIS SOME TINY TURNS HIG NECK AND SUCKS EYES LOOKS IN A DIFFERENT FISH COMING ONE /W. DIRECTION, THAT 1S SOME- AG: THING YOL! AND | CAN'T DOL TINY MOUTHS,ACROSS 4 FEMALE, HE 1S BOW/NG AND CURTBEYING TO HER, BUT ALL HE ¢, 1S ACTUALLY SWIMMING AWAY, HE COMES IT LOOKB AS JE 4 ia WHEN HIG POUCH 16 EMPTY AFTERWARDS, THEY THE PREGNANT MALE CARRIES| THE FEMALE GOES CLOSE AND GO THEIR SEPARATE TH EGGS IN HIS SWOLLEN LAYS HER EGGS IN 17, SHE MAY WAYS. POUCH FOR THE NEXT LAY ABOUT 200 EGGS AT f THEN THE BAB/ES pie Sea 5 HATCH. THE MOUTH OF HORSE KS SHO: THE POUCH OPENS OUT FROM THE WIDE AND THE. FATHER ALTERNATELY BENDS AND STRAIGHTENS HIS BODY IN JERKS, MOUTH OF THE POUCH, TINKLE 2eo Ss ay THE BABY SWIMS TO THE SURFACE . . AFTER EACH B/RTH \ THE MALE RESTS. HE-/9X COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED BY THE TIME ALL THE BABIES HAVE COME OLIT, aay Be BUT WHEN ALL THE ib Le BABES ARE BORN 44 Th, AND AIG POUCH 1B EMPTY AGAIN... ++: HE GOBS OFF iN SEARCH OF ANOTHER FEMALE. HE CANNOT HELP IT, /T 18 THE BREEDING SEASON. SEA-HORSES SOMETIMES TWINE THEIR Tats | AND GO ROUND IN WHAT SEEMS 70 8& A DANCE. HORSE. IT LOOKS | L/KE A TINY | CHINESE DRAGON, BUT /T HAS THE SAME HABITS AG OTHER SEA- HORSES. NEXT (ISSUE? MEET THE RHINOCEROS 2B TINKLETHE HUNT FOR A [ERE WAS 4 ANG. ONE Day | WILL GIVE A REWARD OF 500 GOLD COINS TO \\ ANYONE WHO BRINGS DONKEY... COLOURLESS DONKEY READERS’ CHOICE Based on a story sent by Mlustrations ; Jyothi Rao, M. Mohandas Margao Gi) THERE WERE MANY WHO SPRANG LP FAGERLY. | RIGHT Away, \ 4 Your a Wi _—— THE KING HAD NOT COMPLETED AIS ANNOUNCEMENT «TT CoNKEY WHICH | |S NEITHER GREY NOR BLACK, NOR WHITE, BROWN OR ANY /- ‘COLOUR... 7 BID va 7 ! HEAR: You DID. BUT A DONKEY) RIGHTP / HE WANTS \ MUST HAVE =~] TINKLE WHOEVER HEARD | OF A COLOURLESS / ~— “5BUT SOME MEN TRIED | PERHAPS IF 7O WIN THE REWARD. | \ WASH HIM ALONG WITH THESE CLOTHES AND DEY HIM IN THE HOT SUN TIME WENT BY. WELL, YOU NO ONE CAN FIND WILL ALL HAVE A COLOURLESS TO SEARCH DONKEY » HARDER. MAHARAJ ! 1 HAVE LOCKED IT UP.IT IS SO} FIERCE AN ANIMAL THAT IT KICKS ANYONE WHO GOES NEAR IT, PLEASE SEND ONE OF YOUR GUARDS I SHALL SEND HIM RIGHT AWAY. | WISH TO SEE THE DONKEY IMMEDIATELY MAHARAJ, | HAVE FOUND V EXCELLENT> THE COLOURLESS DONKEY) my maN! WHERE IS WAIT , MY LORD! DON’T SEND HIMsee SEND «+e WEDNESPAY, HIM ON ANY THURSDAY, DAY WHICH IS FRIDAY... NOT 4 SUNDAY, MONDAY 5 TUESDAY...JQ [once cone zHA «0 AND WAS TAKING IT HOME, ON BOUGHT A CALF... THE WAY- — cAI ain 4OU PAY FOR THAT CALF? Story by: ind Prat Singh Mlustrations > V.B..Halbe “uS AS lo gy : E — ALITTLE LATER — HOW MUCH DID YOU ss HOW MUCH Aint Dib You PAY FoR, il THAT CALF? ITY. a %, fe Se , = i 3 3 d A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY- "RoPeE S. y ¥ IW / be Ne AV | WET | eenTINKLE N Quiet! - HE'S TRYING TO SAY 4 TWO MEN WENT DOWN AND HELPED .GONU JHA OUT —Script: LUIS Illustrations : HAVE 4YOU EVER WONDERED WHY PRADEEP SATHE BUT YOU'D HAVE MORE FRIENDS SMELL SO MUCH, RIGHT.YOU HAVE You SHOULD BATHE SOMETIMES, BATHE! NO ONE IN MY FAMILY HAS EVER :' BUT WHAT USE 1S A FRIEND JF HE DOESN'T TELL YOU WHEN YOU SMELL. TOO YOU KNOW.THERE ’S'A DONKEY COMING THIS WAY, AS SOON AS THEYRE HE DRAWS NEAR.) THE MOST STUPID 4OU-RUSH OUT CREATURES AT HIM FROM ON EARTH. WE sf COULD CATCH HIM EASILY. TLL POUNCE ON HIM FROM BEHIND, QOOF ! IT’S VERY DIFFICULT TO WALK OVER THESESAYAL! YOU THORNY CREATURE! + GET HIM, {D008-D008!)> ARE YOU DOING HERE! OH, THERE GOES THE DONKEY! BUT WHERE'S CHAMATAKAP THERE HE Is! HE’S DECIDED TO ALLL KNEW HE WOULD LISTEN To ME. a TINKLETHE MOUSE and oe OF] stories: 6H ELEPHANT —*0s2mo. Gauhati. 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