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Target (magazine)

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History
Content
Contributors
Writers Illustrators
References

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Target was a popular Indian children's magazine that was published monthly in English from 1979 to 1995. It featured a mix of reader contributions, stories from regular writers, do-it-yourself articles and several popular comic strips.

History

In September 1979, Rosalind Wilson (1942–1992), a British expatriate educationist settled in Delhi started Target and became its founder-editor.^[1] The magazine was owned by Living Media, who also own the India Today Group. After Rosalind Wilson's death in 1992, the magazine's publication continued under Amena Jayal with its successful formula of stories and illustrations.

In 1995, in a move to target a larger age group, India Today Group wound up Target to start Teens Today magazine. This move was a failure, because, with its emphasis on fashion and urban life, Teens Today did not have the wide appeal of the unpretentious Target. Teens Today was edited by Target old-timer Vatsala Kaul.

Content

Targets outstanding production values as well as the quality of cartoonists and writers on its editorial board made it stand out from other contemporary Indian children's magazines like Tinkle, Champak and Chandamama.

A popular feature in Target was pages with information on international pen friends. In the age before email revolutionised communication, having pen friends was a popular hobby, both for the purpose of knowing about the world at large, and collecting stamps from foreign countries.<

Some of the popular comic strips published in Target were:

Gardhab Das by Jayanto and Neelabh
Detective Moochhwala and Funny World by Ajit Ninan
Granny's Gupshup by Praloy Chakrovorty

and Joygopal Podder and others

It Happened in History written by Renuka Narayanan and illustrated by Suddhasattwa Basu.
Science News illustrated by Priya Nagarajan and others

Contributors

Writers

Dilip Salvi
Sigrun Srivastava
Ruskin Bond
Geeta Dharmarajan
Jacquelyn Singh
Joygopal Podder
Mala Marwaha (author and illustrator)
Margaret Bhatty
Meera Govil
Meera Uberoi
Paro Anand
Ramaa Isvaran
Renuka Narayanan
Roopa Pai
Rupa Gupta
Subhadra Sengupta
Swapna Dutta
Vijaya Ghose (Associate Editor)
Viswajita Das
Vatsala Kaul (Associate Editor)

Illustrators

Ajit Ninan (made the Funny World and All in Fun cartoon pages)
Jayanto Banerjee
Neelabh Banerjee
Suddhasattwa Basu (creator of India's first animated cartoon series, Gayab Aya)
Praloy Chakrovorty
Sujata Singh
Manjula Padmanabhan (author and illustrator)
Priya Nagarajan
Atanu Roy (illustrated the "HA! HA!" jokes page)

Ajit Ninan and Neelabh are now illustrators and cartoonists with the Times of India.

References

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