Tinkle is an Indian monthly magazine, published mainly in India. Originally owned by the India Book House, the Tinkle brand was acquired by ACK Media in 2007. The magazine contains comics, stories, puzzles, quizzes, contests and other features targeted at school children, although its readership includes many adults as well. It is published in English and syndicated in many Indian languages like Malayalam, Assamese etc.

Tinkle Magazine Vol. 38 No 684

What’s Special? • In this first story in the SuperWeirdos series, Aisha goes hunting for superpowers and gets the shock of her life in SuperWeirdos: Tremors. • A miserly king announces a grand feast with no intention of feeding anyone. But his guests come up with a clever solution to outwit him. Check out How the Miser Outsmarted Himself. • A burglar breaks into a house in a village. It’s now up to the house’s owners to find a stealthy way to alert the village guard. Find out how they do it in Rama to the Rescue. • Shambu is transported back in time and has to face creatures more ferocious than tigers and lions—dinosaurs! Does he survive? Or make his way back to the present? Check out Shikari Shambu: Dino Land. Also starring: Khandoba the miser wants to eat vadas but is unwilling to buy the ingredients. So he goes about gathering the necessary materials in a unique manner in The Man Who Loved Vadas. Strange footprints have been spotted in Pyarelal’s village. So, Pyarelal puts on his thinking cap to track the creature and lead it out of the village in Pyarelal: The Mysterious Footprints. Kalia visits his friend Sundar the peacock, but finds him in a tough spot with Sundari the peahen and... Chamataka! It’s up to Kalia to save the day in Kalia the Crow. An old couple in Punjab has a large plot of land, but no means to plough it for crops. That’s when the lady comes up with a smart idea to get it done in The Treasure Hunt.

Tinkle is an Indian monthly magazine, published mainly in India. Originally owned by the India Book House, the Tinkle brand was acquired by ACK Media in 2007. The magazine contains comics, stories, puzzles, quizzes, contests and other features targeted at school children, although its readership includes many adults as well. It is published in English and syndicated in many Indian languages like Malayalam, Assamese etc.

What’s Special? • Shikari Shambu tries his hand at being a cowboy with disastrous results in Shikari Shambu, the Cowboy. • A talented carpenter’s flying cot lands him in a royal mess in Kokkas and his Flying Cot. • A ferocious tiger that spits money? What wondrous creature is this?! Find out in The Money-Spitting Tiger. • Pyarelal and Lajo enjoy a meal at a restaurant, but the food ends up being more troublesome than they thought in Pyarelal at Daboo’s Dhaba. Also starring: Suppandi takes up a new job and becomes The Best Tourist Guide. No one can seem to stop a boy and his annoying drumming in Curiosity. Doob Doob finds a talking bush in Big Baan, much to his delight in Kalia the Crow. And a baby goat devises an innovative way to outsmart a jackal, a tiger and a wolf in The Clever Goat.

Tantri is adviser to and the right-hand man of Raja Hooja, an easy-going monarch whose chief interest in life is food. Hooja considers Tantri an epitome of loyalty, never realising that the man is a blackguard who has set his sights on the throne. Tantri