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You reminded me of my childhood days when in the summer vacation I used team up with other children to run a home-based library to lend books from our Tinkle collection.

they were great while growing up but i think they do a great deal to perpetrate the fraud of our cleansed history and one dimensional good, heroic, brave leaders/heroes/gods.

from a business stand point, god knows how many people tried to get the old fogies at ACK to join the bandwagon a long time ago (being in the industry, i know everyone has tried at least once) but i don’t think the management ever got it.

i guess they just needed new blood. now i think the new management too is making a mistake by going into it as a production house itself rather than having the guys in the know do it for them.

but i digress. those were fun informative reads all around.

Well thanks to good old Amar Chitra Katha, my knowledge of Indian mythology and history was waaaay more than that of my parents when they were my age.

Gaurav has a valid point though, about comics not doing justice to grey areas and leaving out the delicate subtleties of meaning in Indian philosophy. Fortunately I’ve been able to pad these grey bits over the years, using the basic structure that ACK provided to me as a child.

I dont know if you had these things called “Bound Comics” Meenakshi. Every house in my neighbourhood had a treasured “Tinkle Bind”, “ACK Bind”. “Tintin Bind” etc, containing bunches of comics carefully bound together. Lent out under promise of 24 hour security and dire consequences to the borrower in lieu of damage!

I remember a neighbour uncle of mine actually sat and cut out comic strips from newspapers for 20 years and made some lovely “Bounds” out of them. We could only read them in his hall with him hovering around anxiously while we did.

We also had a comics cupboard at home, and at any time of the day or night, you’d see a kid or two crawled up halfway inside digging out a comic (or sometimes asleep with a comic in hand), with their little feet sticking out.

Being a big fan of comics I have over the years collected a whole lot of comics including Archies, Phantom, Tarzan Classics, Li’l Abner Classics, Wizard of Id Asterix to name a few. However the other day my nephew happened to leave the asterix collection on the floor and Rocky (my German Shepard) had a blast by tearing it all apart. I went online to purchase a new set of asterix and to my surprise (or call it luck) I got the Tintin collection free of cost for buying the asterix collection on IndiaPlaza.

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