Chandamama - English - July-1972
Total Pages: 68
Language: English
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The first edition of Chandamama was released in July, 1947. The founder editor of the magazine was B.Nagi Reddy who later became a leading film producer in South India. Chakrapani, a friend of Nagi Reddy, was the force behind magazine, and his vision, perception and understanding of the target readership brought name and fame to the magazine.
Chandamama was first published in Telugu and Tamil (as Ambulimama) in July 1947. Kannada edition first appeared in July 1949 followed by Hindi in August 1949. Marathi (as Chandoba) and Malayalam (as Ambili Ammavan) editions appeared in April 1952 followed by Gujarati in 1954, English in 1955, Oriya (as Jahnamamu) and Sindhi in 1956, Bengali in August 1972, Punjabi in 1975, Assamese in 1976, Sinhala in 1978, Sanskrit in April 1984 and Santali in 2004. The Punjabi, Sindhi and Sinhala editions were published only for a short period. No English editions were published from October 1957 to June 1970. The magazine ceased publication in 1998, owing to labour disputes. However, the magazine relaunched a year later and continues to be published to this day. Chandamama was published in 13 Indian languages (including English)
For many decades, Chandamama's illustrators defined the look of the magazine. They included such names as M.T.V. Acharya, T. Veera Raghavan, who signed his work as Chithra; Vaddadi Papaiah, who signed as Vapa; Kesava Rao who signed as Kesava; M. Gokhale; and K. C. Sivasankaran, alias Sankar, who joined Chandamama in the year 1951, and continues to draw even now in 2011, in an unbroken association of 6 decades! Later artists such as Shakthi Dass; M. K. Basha, who signed as Razi; Gandhi Ayya, aka Gandhi; and P. Mahesh (Mahe), also continued the tradition into current times. Initially, the covers were printed in four-colours, while the illustrations inside used line drawings. Each page of Chandamama has an illustration, although in the strict sense of the term, Chandamama is not a comic book, with the exception of the Chitra-katha column.
चन्दामामा बच्चों व युवाओं पर केंद्रित एक लोकप्रिय मासिक पत्रिका थी जिसमें भारतीय लोककथाओं, पौराणिक तथा ऐतिहासिक घटनाओं पर आधारित कहानियाँ प्रकाशित होती थी ।
सन 1947 में इस पत्रिका की स्थापना दक्षिण भारत के नामचीन फ़िल्म निर्माता बी. नागी रेड्डी ने की थी। उनके मित्र चक्रपाणी पत्रिका के संपादक बने। 1975 से नागी रेड्डी के पुत्र विश्वनाथ इस का संपादन करते थे ।
आरंभ में चंदामामा छह हज़ार प्रतियों के साथ तेलुगु और तमिल में ही छपती थी । तमिल में इसका नाम था 'अंबुलीमामा' । बाद में कन्नड़ में भी आई और सन 1949 से इसका हिंदी संस्करण आरंभ हुआ । 1978 से चंदामामा चौदह भारतीय भाषाओं में छपने लगी । 1984 में इसका संस्कृत संस्करण आरंभ हुआ । चंदामामा सन 1947 से 1998 तक लगातार छपती रही । लेकिन 1998 में मज़दूरों से हुए एक विवाद की वजह से इसका प्रकाशन बंद कर दिया गया । एक साल बाद चंदामामा ने वापसी की । 2004 में इसका संथाली संस्करण भी शुरू हुआ । और ये ऐसी पहली बाल पत्रिका बन गयी जो एक जनजातीय भाषा में छापी जाती है । हिंदी अंग्रेजी और तेलुगु में इसके ब्रेल संस्करण भी निकलते थे।
