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Today I saw my childhood's favorite magazine Chandamama for the first time in more than 2 decades. My friend Srivatsha Joshi writes a weekly column 'Paraga Sparsha' in the Kannada daily Vijaya Karnataka. In his recent writeup he had written about the wonderful days of one's childhood. Starting with Jagjeet Singh's ghazal 'yeh daulat bhi lelo' about getting back childhood, he had gone on to reminisce about one's younger days. It is a beautiful article. The link to podcast version is provided at the end of this article.

While I enjoyed the article for many reasons, one thing that hit me deep was that it pointed out a link to the website of my childhood's favorite magazine 'Chandamama' - the colorful publication which came every month and contained colorful illustrations and stories. As soon as I heard about Chandamama's web presence I was there looking up the web page. The website is pretty cool with links to Chandamama in various Indian languages as well as in English.

It has various categories and you can look up older stories. You can go to the archives and choose older issuea and read them as if you are flipping the printed magazine. The link to Chandamama website is at the end of this article.Looking at the various pictures and stories I was transported back to my primary school days in Bangalore.

During those days we got the English daily Deccan Herald, delivered to our home. Once a week (on Wednesdays) we would receive 'Sudha' the Kannada magazine which had a loving fan-following among Kannadigas. It was a very dignified weekly which catered to refined tastes with serial stories (dharavahi), cartoons, photo comics, interviews and a decent film section. Reading it and discussing its contents formed part of the family's activities.

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As children, I, my brother and my cousins enjoyed reading comics strips such as Dabu, Majnu, Shuja, Inspector Azad.I remember that one day I had gone to my aunt's house with my mother. A small book sized magazine caught my eye with its colorful pictures and grand representations of Indian mythology. Flipping through a few pages was enough to suck me into the wonderful magical world this small magazine, namely Chandamama, had created.

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That particular issue had a picture of Hanuman, his tail wound to form a huge pedestal for himself to sit on. From this tall perch he was staring down at Ravana. Besides this, there was the image of the most spectacular Ashoka Vana, which occupied one full page. When my mother noticed my excitement at reading Chandamama in my aunt's house, she made the decision to subscibe it and I became a regular reader.Thinking about it now, I feel a lot our mental pictures of ancient India has been painted by magazines like Chandamama and Amar Chitra Katha. I still remember the beautiful representation of Amaravathi - the beautiful capital city of the gods in heaven.

I can also recall that eerie picture at the end of the Mahabharatha epic, the picture in which Yudishtira accompanied by a dog, crosses the Vaitharni river to enter the 'after-life' world.At the beginning of the magazine was the Panchatantra series by Vishnu Sharma. Panchatantra taught valuable life lessons through stories involving characters like foxes, elephants and humans with names like dushta buddi (evil mind) and paapa buddi (bad mind). It was with uncontrollable excitement that I would hold these magazines as they were delivered on the appointed day in the month.Oh how can one forget the series involving Raja Vikramaditya and the Beethala (ghost). In between all these there would be stories which involve normal human beings. There would be stories about villagers, sanyasis, old time businessmen with names like Ratnayya Sreshti. This was the world from a by gone era.

That world was untainted by modern life, technology or vices. Once, I had felt odd when a small story referred to a radio. How can the wonderful world of Chandamama have a radio which is from our 'realistic' world.?It was mainly through Chandamama that I learnt to read longer Kannada passages. At that age I was perhaps the only kid in my English medium school who could read Kannada stories so fluently. It feels great to experience again that thrill from my child hood days. Hope you will enjoy it too. Anonymoussaid.Thank you Madhu.

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I enjoyed your blog.Chandamaama has occupied a niche place in my mind that every time I visit brings up great memories of the 70's/80's.I had liked dharavahis like 'shilaaratha' and 'yaksha parvatha' so much my brother and I had gone away deep into 'west of chord road' very very deep for hours planning to become 'khadgaverma' and 'Jeevadatta' the king and the Ascetic in that mega kadambari.Finally we got scared and came back.As you have mentioned daabu, shuja, majanu and azad also bring up similar memories. Said.Nice one. The Chandamama link shows a message that the site is under upgradation. My younger brother was getting Chandamama English.

I had seen the Kannada ones in my aunt's place in Tata Silk Farm Basavanagudi in the 60s. They had bound all the volumes and treasured the issues from the 1950s Gone now. I used to look at them one by one and enjoy the little stories my aunt explained from them while I enjoyed and wondered the illustrations of Sankar and Chitra. Not one issue is saved with us now. But I have most of the Dabu by Pran, Azad, Majnu, Kapisha, etc. Still with me. I used to cut them up from the magazines and have bound them into books!!

I also hade such comic books from Ill. Phantom, Dennis etc. Still have them!dinakar58.at.yahoo.com.

The hugely popular Chandamama magazine was a classic Indian monthly magazine for children which depicted mythological and historical stories. It was famous for its illustrations. It was originally started in Telugu by B.Nagi Reddy and Chakrapani, well known Telugu Film producers. It was edited by Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao a hugely well-known figure in Telugu literature.

Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao edited the magazine for 28 years until his death in August 1980. The magazine which started first on Telugu and Tamil expanded its horizon and started printing in twelve Indian languages as well as English. The last issue of the magazine was published in March 2013, but now the official website has started uploading their original editions online, all available for free download.

This will bring back huge childhood memories and nostalgia for several groups of people who have grown up reading Chandamama storybooks.The online editions include versions in English, Hindi, and Telugu but the website is planning to include other languages such as Sanskrit, Assamese, Oriya, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, and Tamil soon enough. The Indian mythology stories were completely written by Kodavatiganti Kutumba Rao and also honed new talent and young writers in Telugu to adapt the writing style that he made popular in Andhra Pradesh. Some stories were also written by Dasari Subrahmanyam, the creator of the Patala Durgam television serial.You can download the.The website has stories from 1947 to 2006 which will make many people in India very happy as it will bring memories from their childhood back and moreover, they might be able to share these mesmerizing stories with their children and grandchildren too.