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IN THE
ers,
are four fun-loving sist Day for the
Ina, Mina, Mynah and Moto tell. They usually give their Preservation of
the ir ow n sto ry his money
each with er, Jagannath, a run for the Ozone Layer
doting but miserly fathy explore their individuality.
(literally!) as the

ZONE
16 September

Story & Script Pencils & Inks

Aparna Sundaresan Archana Amberkar

Colours Letters
Sachin Adhare Pranay Bendre

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Whoa! So

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Yeah, Ina.
many stalls They’re all
in this year’s promoting good

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NGO* fair! causes and
charities.

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*A non-governmental organization
There’s that works for social issues
Mynah!
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independent of the government

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Hey Mynah, why Well, Mina, no

the long face? one wants to
hear about the
ozone layer.
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Why did I even

volunteer
for the Ozone
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Awareness
Group?
.
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s:
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Why is
everyone
Soon- crowding
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You girls go around that

check out the stall?
other stalls and
come back here
in an hour. IF I
STILL HAVE no
visitors, we’ll
pack up and go
home.

Let’s go
find out,
INA.
Okay then. Let’s go,
girls. Good luck, Mynah.
 We are the Farmers’
Collective. We work to bring
farmers’ fresh produce Of course
directly to the market. people are
gathering
here. Who can These fruits are
say no to quite sweet and
free food? juicy too!

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No middlemen, no
meddling. Taste a sample
of the fresh fruits we
grow and sell.

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Our mother is a chef.
That would be
She’d love to partner
great! Do ask
with you to supply
her to speak
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fresh produce directly
to us.
to her restaurant.
What a great
ed
stall! Where Ooh! That
next? one looks
super shiny!
Let’s check
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it out!
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We at Solara make
solar-powered kitchen Whoa! This is
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equipment. Save energy, so cool!

save fuel! We should
tell Mom
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about this
too! Imagine
cooking
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everything
with the power
of the Sun!

Hmmm…

This pot of rice was made in our

solar cooker in just a few minutes.
 Everyone Speaking of
here is so creativity, let’s go This t-shirt would
creative check out that stall. look fabulous on
Clothes handmade by Mina?
and you, Mo. Wouldn’t
innovative. tribal women! it, Mina?

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Where is Mina?
Where did she go? Mina?

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Mina!
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Was she with

us when we
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came here?
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But- Huh? Why is

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She isn’t answering her there such a

phone either. Where has crowd here?
she wandered off to? Have we come
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to the wrong
place?
Let’s go back to
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Mynah’s stall. Ladies and

Perhaps Mina will gentlemen!
show up there in
some time, like
Mynah told us to.
 Do you know what Exactly what
would happen if we happened to these
had no ozone layer fruits in this solar
in the atmosphere cooker-totally
to protect us? cooked! The raw
power of the Sun is
no joke.

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The ozone
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Do check out the
And join us
layer is Earth’s Farmers’ Collective
at the O.A.G. to
sunscreen. and Solara stalls.
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educate people
Some chemicals They kindly lent their
on harmful
in cleaning Our ozone layer is produce and equipment
chemicals!
solutions and still mending from for our demo.
other products
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all the harm. To

break down help, we must only
ozone. buy eco-friendly
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products.
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Eep! Sorry, but I had an

exciting idea. The farmers and My foodie influence must I’d love
How-when…
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Solara were happy to partner have rubbed off on you, Mina. them, Mo!
You gave
for a good cause. People How about another week of Thanks for
us the slip,
always crowd around free these cooked fruits at home? offering
Mina!
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food, right? them to me.

Hehe!

Hahaha!

Do you Have an idea for the Toons? Click or tap here to let us know.
 Ever wondered what
Friends
Forever!
Tinkle’s mostly-out-of-a-job
Toon was like in his childhood?
Meet Little Suppandi and
you’ll know!
Story & Script Pencils & Inks
Rebekah S.J. Archana Amberkar
Colours Letters
Sachin Adhare Pranay Bendre

One day in art class-

I hope all of you

have brought the bird

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cut-outs from home like

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I asked you to.

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Good! Now stick them

Kids, I’ve
together on the branch
dra-Whoa!
we drew earlier. We don’t
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want our little friends

to be separated.
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What are I don’t want Maddy Now we will

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you doing, to be separated from be together

Suppandi?! me, ma’am. So, I’ve forever!
applied glue on him
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just as we did for

the birds!

ACK!

Do you Have an idea for the Toons? Click or tap here to let us know.
 GOING TO THE MOVIES WITH
BACHAT KUMARI space Captain is
One day… Bachat! Babita! Did you releasing next

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hear? Did you hear? month and navya

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gupta is coming
for the premiere!

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What’s up,
TIngu?

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We HAVE to go
for this, Bachat! Okay, so how
ed
navya is our I agree much is this
favourite actor! completely! going to cost us?
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That’s
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the thing.
Premiere
tickets are
`1500 per
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person!
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That’s too
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expensive! our
parents will never
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agree to that.
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Come on, gang! We

have four weeks.
I’m sure we can
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figure out ways to

We can collect pay for the tickets
old newspapers ourselves!
and plastic
bottles and We can offer to do
sell them to the chores around the
kabaadiwaala. We neighborhood. Wash
can also run a cars, walk pets, that
lemonade stand in sort of thing.
the afternoons.

These are all

excellent ideas.
Let’s get started asap!

PROMOTION
 The trio swings into action over the next few weeks and
they do all sorts of odd jobs around their neighborhood…

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A few days before the premiere… We were so close. I And you will, my dear Babita!
was really looking With this extra `2000, we will

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38…39…4000! We’re Oh no! forward to seeing have enough for our tickets
`500 short! navYa in person! and more at the theatre!

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I dipped into my savings, so

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that my best friends don’t

have to miss out on their It’s always a
plans. They don’t call me good idea to save
Bachat Kumari for nothing! whenever you
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wow, bachat!
can. I keep aside
a little bit of my
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pocket money
every month,
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especially for
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moments like these.

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If you two start

saving like I do, You’re the best,
we will never have Bachat kumari!
to worry about
money again.

You can also

save like Bachat
Kumari. Apply for
your Kotak Junior
Yup! Your savings account today.
have saved the day!

PROMOTION
 International
Day for the
Preservation of
the Ozone Layer
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orkin 16 September
was w n for the
Mina ta t io he
resen for t nd
on a p ational Day e Layer a
t e r n O z o n z in e.
In f the mag a
io n o in a o ff
rvat ssed how
Prese was engro cided to s s h e
h a de le d id
Myna h e n Min s. But litt f or
w r is e
That’s zone fact ad a surp
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some hat Mynah en to their
know
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W E S O M E O ZONE
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YOUT: PRASAD
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heroes
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don’t wear
capes!
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I can! Would
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countrie e the use of c er. And
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can destro y mo re to redu ozone la ts have
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Pr ot
Environmental destroying 30 year t this has help elf
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Agen cy sa ys yer rep
lot easier than ozone la Antarctica!
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the ozone is a over

creating it.
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You’re
recovering
Eep! No well! No
in
swimming more
aters
chlorine w harmful
for me! chemicals,
OKAY?

Looks like Mina and Mynah know quite a bit about the ozone layer. Let’s hope they can help save it too. If
you have any topics for our Toons, write to us at tinklemail@ack-media.com with the subject ‘Top That!’
 The students at Nilgiri Orchid
International School go on a
host of adventures, from
dealing with bossy prefectss
THE SECRET Happy
Teachers’ Day!

MEETI NG
5 September
and scary teachers to
uncovering strange
secrets about their
campus.
Story & Script Pencils & Inks
Aparna Sundaresan Rajib Das
Colours Letters
Sachin Adhare Pranay Bendre

As Sahir’s state worsened, his parents

showed up on campus to talk to Ms. Ashira, the
Principal of NOIS. What now? Let’s find out.

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The following morning For this year’s Teachers’

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in the NOIS auditorium- Day, I want all of you to
participate in the students’
show. I will assign your
roles to you.

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Nadia and Thangam

will write and
Dheer, you and present a poem of
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appreciation for
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your art club will help Aadi and the drama

paint banners and our teachers. club-I want a skit about
backdrops for an inspiring teacher
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the stage. from history.

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{Ugh} Perfect! I
No! will bring
to life-
Not with
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Thangam!
Easy-peasy,
Freya.

Yay!
 -the unconventional I’ll be Absolutely
story of how infamous handling the not, Rayna! You’ll
robber Daketh Maal taught music system just unscrew the
Neer Suraameen to be the on the day, whole thing. Be
most feared pirate of the right? constructive and
Indian Ocean! help make costumes
and props for
everyone.

Then be prepared
to receive
unconventional
feedback also.

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A few minutes later- At this very
moment, Sahir’s

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Nadia, let’s channel the parents are with
spirits of Shakespeare Princy Ashira in
and Sarojini Naidu to her office. I want
inspire us to write an to know what’s
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amazing poem… blah going on!
blah blah…
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Yeesh! Doesn’t And then we change
this girl get tired the rhyming scheme
of talking? in the next stanza…
blah blah…
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I have a library book on famous poets

in our dorm. I used it for my English
And we finish I can’t take homework, but I think it’ll help us too.
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with a final this any longer.

stanza in the I wonder if this
style of A.K. will work…
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Ramanujan’s!

Yes! I can
get away
for some
time!

Ooh yes! Quickly go

fetch it and we’ll
smash this poem!
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And get some
info too in the process.
I really Two birds, one stone!
don’t want to go Time to sneak into
back to Thangam. I Princy Ashira’s office
wonder if I can kill from the back.
some more time…

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tc
This is Darn it! The curtains

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easy! No one are drawn inside and
saw me climb I can’t hear anything
over the railing over the hum of the air
into Princy’s
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conditioner.
basement garden.
Only a door
separates me
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from her
office! {Ahem}
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What exactly
are you doing in
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Princy Ashira’s
office garden,
Nadia?
tp
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F-F-Freya! I-I-I
was j-just-
 I was skipping about
while returning to the
auditorium when my book
flew out of my hand and
landed here.
-retrieving my
book! Yes! You see,
it fell in here.

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And how
exactly did
that happen?

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And THEN I Well, in that case,
couldn’t get out, I told you! The just knock on
so would you… um…
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book! It’s the Princy’s door and
please help me up? library’s! I was ask her to let
bringing it to you out. She’ll
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help write our understand.
poem.
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tin
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Not until you

tell me why you
ran away from
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the auditorium
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and came here.

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Don’t be like How did you

this, Freya! get in here?
You’re my
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prefect! Help
me please!
Oh no!
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Princy
Ashira!

M-m-my
b-book
What’s
f-fell in…
going
on?!
 I don’t have time
for this. Get out And so-
and go back to
your dorm. Freya,
Nadia, what
take the remaining No… I don’t
happened? Why
class 5s to their know… I hope
does Princy
dorms. I will not…
want to talk to
address them
us? Are you in
in a bit.
trouble?

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Y-yes, ma’am. Thank you,
ma’am. Sorry, ma’am.

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Vishoy? What are you doing
here? Wouldn’t you rather be

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Children, Sahir will be stepping down
eating glue in the art room? from his prefect duties for some time.
Why? Did you leave Vishoy, Freya’s classmate, will be
some for me? Is your filling in for him in the meantime.
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glue diet why you are
so stuck up?
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What?
kl
tin
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//t

That’s
enough.
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Thank you Aren’t we,

for the Freya?
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opportunity,
Ashira ma’am.
My juniors,
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we’re going
to have a lot
of fun…

Nooo!

Now the class 5 students have a new prefect? Where has Sahir disappeared to?
And what’s the deal with Freya and Vishoy? Keep reading Tinkle to find out!
Text: Aaina Anand & Aparna Sundaresan Art: Sachin Adhare Design & Layout: Prasad Sawant & Akshay Khadilkar

USA His story is

now history! Humans from History
The origin of the human species has always been of

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interest to scientists and researchers. A recent

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discovery made at Redwood Falls, Minnesota, sheds
some light on ancient humans.

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A partial skull that was uncovered by kayakers two
summers ago is now confirmed to have been 8,000
years old! The skull was found in the drought-affected

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Minnesota River, about 180 km west of the city of
Minneapolis. It was examined by experts who

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determined that the skull likely belonged to a young
man who lived in the area between 5500 and 6000
BCE, making him an ancestor of a Native American tribe.
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The skull was handed over to the chiefs of the Upper Sioux Community tribe that still lives
there, in keeping with laws that require Native American remains to be returned to their people.
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What a -astrophe! Germany

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Something strange happened in the This is the

purr-fect
southern town of Walldorf. Cat owners
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season for me!

weren’t allowed to let their pets out of the
house until the end of August this year!
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Why? To protect a rare bird during its

breeding season, of course!
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The species in question was the crested

lark, a bird that makes its nest on the
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ground, thus becoming an easy prey for

felines. This bird’s population has fallen
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sharply in western Europe recently.

Authorities said that for the species to
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survive, it was important that every chick survived. Cats, therefore, had to be kept indoors.
And unfortunately for our feline friends, this order will be in place for the next three years too!
Cat owners were not happy with this rule, but getting catty over conservation won’t help anyone!

Have you been

monkeying
around?

CLICK ORtcThAaP
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here to wa
exciting bonus
story!
 Aisha is a superhero, though a weird one, which
makes her a SuperWeirdo! She has the weird
power to sense people with SuperWeird powers. And
the ‘weird’ part about it is that she wiggles and jiggles
when she senses a SuperWeirdo!
BURRP!
Story & Script Art

SuperWeirdos
Rebekah S.J. Abhijeet Kini Designs
Letters
Prasad Sawant

Late one evening-

How nice that you stay close And with But what’s the
to Heer’s granny’s house, Nani’s* adopted use? We have
pup, Buster!

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Nikki! Now we can spend the to eat ‘healthy
next few days together! food’!

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tc
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*Maternal grandmother in Hindi

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Ever since the health club Well… KIND OF. Sometimes I

came to town, Nani has We had boiled envy BUSTER’S
been trying the weirdest spinach-wrapped food.
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healthy recipes. Gone are broccoli and some

the days of homemade green juice which
snacks and yummy food! neither of us
could stomach.
e/
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Is it
that
bad?
.
//t
s:
tp
ht

I HEAR the
door creaking
downstairs. Nani
must be back from
her health club
meeting.

Wonder what
new AND terrible
recipes she’s got
with her! I’m going
to convince her
to order from a
RESTAURANT tonight.
 {Gasp} Looks like they’re thieves.
That’s not Nani! Let’s call the police.
Who are these
strangers?!

Let’s alert
Nani too.

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tc
You forget THAT we are Let’s see
Soon- The police told us to stay SuperWeirdos. I won’t what they

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put. They’ll take some time let them touch any of are up to
to get here because Nani’s Nani’s stuff. now.
house is in the hills. ig
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kl
tin
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What if
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the thieves
rob the place
.

and escape
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by then?
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Aha! I see Oh no-

they’ve begun
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to help
themselves.
“Gangway! Game time!”
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Nikki, did
you shut the
bedroom door?
Buster will run
straight down
otherwise.
 Get them! Get this
dog off
me first,
Theefa!

Aye! Dog!

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And girls! Time for some
There are SuperWeird
people here, actionS.
Kalla!

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W-wh-whoa!
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kl
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Sho-
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What?
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Yeow!
.

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Heer Can make people go backwards
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when she rubs her heel on the ground

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WAAH!
OWW!

Bwahahaha!
 Nooo, Nikki!
Don’t laugh
now!S

Oh no!
What have
I done?!

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Nikki’s laugh can cause people to go into a hunger craze for 15 minutes

You’re hungry?
A-aren’t you T-theefa? My kitchen, my
This creeper l-looks love! Hungry,

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Fooooood! I delicious! hungry, hungry!
AM HUNGRY!

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“Now, this game is

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right up my alley!”
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I’ve ruined it all, Hehe! That’s Wait! He’s going to

Aisha. Heer’s gone into okay, Nikki. This open the front door.
a hunger craze too. is perfect. Nikki, keep an eye on
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the other two.

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On it,
.

Aisha.
//t
s:
tp
ht

There’s
nothing outside! You have
Look, she has food?! GIVE
food! ME!

Psst! Wondering why Aisha isn’t in a hunger craze?

She’s immune to other SuperWeird powers!
 Ha! Get Noo!
it! Fruit flies!
Fruit flies!

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tc
My More hungry!
ORANGE!
orange! Aah! Shelves No orange,

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have food? but fridge
still full!
Yes!
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I waaaannnt!
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{Chomp Chomp}
Huh? {Munch}
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No more
raw food!
COOKED
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FOOD IS
MINE!

Noo!
{Chomp}
I eat all!
{munch}
We can’t stop them But 15 minutes are
when they’re in nearly up. I can’t laugh WHAT ON
the hunger CRAZE. again and let them Heer- EARTH IS
We’ll just have to continue to stuff GOING ON?!
make sure nothing their stomachs
untoward happens. with rubbish.

Huh?

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tc
This is not what I My tummy And I’m
You can rest
expected when I read feels funny. so tired.

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well in prison.
Heer’s message that {Groan} I don’t
don’t worry.
there are thieves at know why.
home.
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ed
Nani! Erm…
Heer loves
your food so
so much that
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she’s trying to
save it from
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the goons.
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My darling Heer, I
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When Heer gave me their Don’t you

description, we knew we’d didn’t know you liked dare start
finally got Theefa and my healthy food so laughing out
tp

Kalla. They’ve been robbing much! I have many new loud now!
old folks’ houses in the recipes and I’ll make
neighbourhood. them all for you.
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But they Noo!

didn’t know {Blergh}
my girls
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