![]() ![]() It was information and entertainment packaged in the style of a comic book, with fonts and illustrations that made even heavier content easily digestible.Īlso read: Hum Log, India’s first soap opera and DD’s experiment with foreign cinemaĬhandamama was first published in July 1947 in Telugu and Tamil (as Ambulimama) by filmmakers B. The monthly magazine featured folktales, mythological tales (like stories from Mahabharata, Ramayana, Baital Pachisi and Vishnu Puran), stories sent in by readers and moral stories along with current events from different states of India and fun facts about the various cultures. Poonam credits her fascination for stories to Chandamama, the magazine that gave her and many others tons of fascinating stories of different kinds, with an underlying moral hidden in every story. “Kids imagine themselves to be protagonists of the stories they hear,” she says, while emphasising on the importance of stories to teach kids about morals and ethics without patronising them. Poonam Sharma, a teacher in Gautam Buddh Nagar, makes it a point to tell her daughters a story every night before they sleep. ![]()
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